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» 18/09/2023 6:56:31 PM Idiots like Tom Harris are getting played by someone – and I'm guessing it's the abortion .....
» 18/06/2023 7:23:54 PM Yuyutsu, He's not a bot. He's been rabbiting on about this "solution" for much l.....
» 18/06/2023 7:15:38 PM Yuyutsu, The ship's quite obviously a metaphor. Do you have a problem with metaphors?.....
» 18/06/2023 12:59:36 AM (continued) • The superannuation system is robust. It's nearly always been under attack, e.....
» 18/06/2023 12:59:26 AM Stupid article! The ship's not sinking at all. Anti-environmentalists have a far more cul.....
» 16/06/2023 9:49:10 AM Canem, Aboriginality is not a political position. Trotskyism is a subset of communism......
» 15/06/2023 7:17:06 PM Canem, >Sounds like Aiden wants to be able to indoctrinate and take away parents childr.....
» 15/06/2023 11:17:03 AM Tiny houses are not for everyone. They're certainly not for me, and I doubt they'd be attr.....
» 15/06/2023 11:00:15 AM (Apologies for the typo above: "plots" should of course have been "pilots&q.....
» 15/06/2023 10:56:04 AM Considering how many women are marrying other women, sex selection of children is desirabl.....
» 15/06/2023 10:37:42 AM HKOP wil never be a real solution. Replacing what you dubiously label "Jew hatred&quo.....
» 14/06/2023 6:59:58 PM mhaze, Take another look at the ABS link you supplied, and you'll see that after negative .....
» 10/06/2023 10:51:45 PM You have misdiagnosed the problem, mhaze. The patient does not have cancer. The primary c.....
» 8/06/2023 9:37:07 AM Yuyutsu, Other concerns may have become less important to Netanyahu but that doesn't make .....
» 7/06/2023 12:41:11 AM diver, >Since when in history, do people get what they want? 'Tis actually a common (th.....
» 7/06/2023 12:16:21 AM Hasbeen, No, I didn't miss the point. I saw that the point you were trying to make was bas.....
» 6/06/2023 10:49:15 AM No need for profanities Hasbeen! Nothing I said was incorrect. The CO2, which I didn't men.....
» 6/06/2023 10:07:00 AM Biden's in no bind. The significance of that non-solution turning 1 is practically zero, a.....
» 6/06/2023 9:50:19 AM G'day Pal, Under WorkChoices they treated all days as the same. Failure to subsequently co.....
» 6/06/2023 1:41:25 AM I seem to have omitted the word "quality" from my above post. A high quality edu.....
» 6/06/2023 1:13:07 AM Failure to comply with regulations is not theft. Genuine wage theft is a serious criminal .....
» 5/06/2023 9:49:33 AM Struth this guy waffles on a lot! And obseses over equality when the real issue is high qu.....
» 5/06/2023 9:22:25 AM Shadow, 'Tis not a myth. The calculations of the global warming potential of methane do ta.....
» 3/06/2023 10:32:05 AM david, The UN is a good (though not perfect) institution. Don't make the mistake of assumi.....
» 1/06/2023 11:16:22 AM How does this qualify as a landslide victory? It looks pretty narrow to me! _____________.....
» 12/05/2023 9:19:31 AM I've read elsewhere that cancel culture is mainly something people aim at those from their.....
» 5/05/2023 2:06:36 PM I've never really understood the aversion to social engineering that so many right wingers.....
» 26/04/2023 11:13:45 AM Bad headline writing here: ChatGPT is (allegedly) slandering not libelling. Libelling is p.....
» 26/04/2023 11:01:44 AM Hasbeen, It may be bad policy but it's hardly a cliff. How big are those paper bags? The .....
» 25/04/2023 8:55:03 AM People seem to have failed to notice that this article is a strawman......
» 25/04/2023 8:50:09 AM indy, A lot of conservatives are paranoid about cliffs that aren't actually there. They fa.....
» 24/04/2023 8:58:05 AM 'Tis good to know that not everyone in the Libs is sufficiently "loyal" to put p.....
» 21/04/2023 12:47:06 PM ttbn, Though it's a low priority issue, I can't agree that there's no reason to change it......
» 21/04/2023 8:26:53 AM Alan B., The nature of work will change, but it won't be limited to just a few. The govern.....
» 20/04/2023 10:15:06 AM ttbn,, >Australia is going down the gurgler because useless Australians have had it too.....
» 19/04/2023 9:02:24 AM josephus, Like your previous claims that the voice would be able to veto legislation, thes.....
» 19/04/2023 8:42:14 AM david f, Blind faith is the enemy of reason, but my faith as a Christian is largely based .....
» 17/04/2023 8:42:23 AM Why is this article repeated?.....
» 15/04/2023 1:46:24 AM >The toughest condition of the IMF's K3 billion loan to PNG is devaluation This is tru.....
» 14/04/2023 11:23:54 PM ttbn, This was quite surprising - I didn't expect even you to be sufficiently deluded to t.....
» 11/04/2023 1:11:06 PM RORO shipping relies on subsidies even on the one main route where there's no road based a.....
» 6/04/2023 10:15:38 PM CHERFUL, Who's Selenski? When I looked up the name, I was directed to the Wikipedia page o.....
» 5/04/2023 9:06:57 AM ttbn, >This country needs Conservatives That depends what you mean. Some people who ide.....
» 1/04/2023 9:40:10 AM mhaze, I think it's fair to say the population bomb was defused by easy access to the cont.....
» 17/03/2023 4:04:06 PM Over the years I've seen many articles on this site that I disagreed with. But NEVER BEFOR.....
» 14/03/2023 8:29:07 AM ttbn, A tax change that slightly adversely affects the richest half percent doesn't seem t.....
» 12/03/2023 3:34:31 PM Paul, I asked: : Have you any actual evidence it's not technically a church? I take the la.....
» 11/03/2023 8:09:18 PM Indy, >Any religion that asks for donation is divorced from decency ! So how do you su.....
» 11/03/2023 12:10:48 AM Fester, The extent of Russian cooperation Ukraine needs to export grain via the Black Sea .....
» 10/03/2023 12:30:58 PM Some of the posters on this thread really ought to take a better look at the map! Neither .....
» 7/03/2023 6:26:33 PM Maverick and Alan B, Have you thought this through? Australia have been at the forefront o.....
» 3/03/2023 11:05:15 AM Rhian, I suggest you take a closer look at http://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/busine.....
» 2/03/2023 12:54:03 AM Yuyutsu, >It is not about the population still growing because human population is alre.....
» 1/03/2023 6:29:12 PM Aspley, I agree it's not bizarre, but your description isn't quite right either. 'Tis not .....
» 1/03/2023 12:42:16 AM Bazz, Yes, I remember hearing about that North American event too. But it wasn't an inevit.....
» 28/02/2023 10:27:21 AM What name have they given Adelaide? If it's a really good one it could be very helpful, as.....
» 28/02/2023 12:11:14 AM diver, Don't be so quick to rule out the Russians. They still have gas export capability, .....
» 28/02/2023 12:09:38 AM Armchair, The promise not to expand NATO eastwards was made to a country that no longer ex.....
» 25/02/2023 8:52:13 AM Pretty dodgy list you've got there, ttbn! There's disagreement over whether a cable all th.....
» 22/02/2023 7:49:28 AM Shadow, >Labor loves to tax and spend, and in doing this they are boosting inflation a.....
» 20/02/2023 10:20:13 PM Shadow, I think it's more a case of you misinterpreting what dictionaries say than my disa.....
» 20/02/2023 12:36:58 AM Paul, The obvious solution is a postal survey to give them a mandate to do the economicall.....
» 19/02/2023 7:31:31 AM Paul, Crap is still crap even if you manage to make it sound more impressive. At least hav.....
» 17/02/2023 11:49:09 PM Paul, >Knowledgeable economic sources are now telling us that today's inflation and the.....
» 17/02/2023 12:35:31 AM Shadow, A technological breakthrough is the implementation of an idea that results in doin.....
» 15/02/2023 10:19:15 PM Those who think it's a good idea should watch this episode of Utopia: http://iview.abc.net.....
» 15/02/2023 10:16:03 PM Shadow, IWTF do you think" technological breakthrough" means? Did you confuse th.....
» 15/02/2023 10:48:19 AM mhaze, Vaccine efficacy is analogue not digital! Like everyone else, I'd hoped that the va.....
» 15/02/2023 10:47:12 AM Armchair, >Well I hate to say it Aiden, but it seems like you just stepped in your own .....
» 15/02/2023 9:22:33 AM >For all the remarkable power available through AI and machine related learning, >we.....
» 14/02/2023 11:13:10 AM Armchair, >- Who paid off Crowdstrike and Christopher Steele then? The phrase "pa.....
» 14/02/2023 1:03:47 AM CHERFUL, Protectionism gives the short term illusion of prosperity, but it eventually just.....
» 14/02/2023 12:42:37 AM mhaze, Covid is unrelated to flu, and it's highly likely that an actual strain of flu will.....
» 13/02/2023 8:12:10 PM mhaze In the runup to the 2016 Presidential Election, there was an enormous campaign of li.....
» 13/02/2023 7:03:03 PM ttbn, The Socialists have not been in power in Australia in my lifetime, so I'd say they'r.....
» 13/02/2023 6:51:29 PM Shadow, How so?.....
» 9/02/2023 8:14:12 AM Shadow, >What breakthroughs? The ones that make the means of generating renewable power.....
» 8/02/2023 8:34:56 AM Paul, it hardly matters what ttbn's sources are, as they're opinions not verifiable claims.....
» 8/02/2023 7:56:02 AM This is a rather stupid article, as there are many technological breakthroughs. We could a.....
» 7/02/2023 9:18:54 AM Sorry, forgot to fix the links: http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2023/february/jim-chalm.....
» 7/02/2023 9:16:33 AM What Chalmers actually wrote is at https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2023/february/jim-c.....
» 3/02/2023 12:42:24 AM >Any suggestions for saving in this bright new overpriced world? Rooftop solar, obvious.....
» 3/02/2023 12:39:10 AM The WEF has long struggled to maintain relevance. It won't come to an abrupt end this year.....
» 2/02/2023 8:30:07 AM ttbn, >Replacement of the rule of law and property rights. I'd be surprised if he doesn.....
» 30/01/2023 12:47:24 AM davd f, Cyanobacteria aren't animals. They also lack the ability to make choices. So Paul'.....
» 28/01/2023 4:00:53 PM Shadow, You started the thread. You failed to supply the detail. You failed to answer my q.....
» 28/01/2023 3:50:26 PM A one off plane trip to Alice Springs as part of an attempt to solve a law and order probl.....
» 28/01/2023 3:37:14 PM david f, Is that the Christian Reformed Church where they speak Afrikaans? Or is there a d.....
» 27/01/2023 5:35:34 PM Shadow, Restating what you've already said doesn't answer my question. The moratorium was .....
» 27/01/2023 8:18:22 AM Shadow, Violently opposed? How so? Exactly which gas development is it they're blocking?.....
» 25/01/2023 1:28:07 PM Shadow, > The stupidity is the investors driving this system. Are you sure? It looks to.....
» 24/01/2023 3:32:43 PM Struth, the stupidity in this thread is astounding! Because of the war in Ukraine, fossil .....
» 24/01/2023 3:16:10 PM Huh? I admit I haven't been following the issue very closely, but I was under the impressi.....
» 24/01/2023 3:10:49 PM ttbn, There's a very high chance of us reaching net zero by 2050 and meeting the pathetica.....
» 23/01/2023 5:08:52 PM david f, Those who are best at making political decisions aren't always the best at commun.....
» 21/01/2023 9:54:17 AM mhaze, As an engineer I see it a bit differently. Do you know what "failsafe" me.....
» 19/01/2023 10:07:47 PM Indy, I'm pretty sure installing a do-less-good would give inferior results......
» 17/01/2023 8:48:56 PM Bazz, The stupidity is yours, not Bowen's. The reason you think the task is a thousand tim.....
» 16/01/2023 7:25:06 PM ttbn, Injuries to some of the dead wales off NJ suggest it was collisions with ships that.....
» 16/01/2023 12:12:57 PM Bazz, do you you live in the real world? I ask because this thread makes it look like you'.....
» 7/01/2023 8:05:32 AM Bazz, your last comment was almost as deluded as the article itself! Apart from your obvi.....
» 4/01/2023 7:39:56 AM ttbn, Supposing, a few years back, Julia Gillard had come up with "the 'Anti-Australi.....
» 3/01/2023 9:37:57 AM I see a glaring error in that list: it's West Papua, rather than Papua New Guinea, where l.....
» 3/01/2023 9:23:27 AM I nominate Paul Collits. I admit I don't know much about him, but the inclusion of the Tea.....
» 30/12/2022 7:28:27 PM Fester, Exactly what energy loss are you referring to? Could you have somehow confused the.....
» 30/12/2022 9:07:52 AM tritely taunting "boofhead" now, Most comments on this board are not intelligent.....
» 29/12/2022 10:23:58 AM ttbn, >Our only coal powered electricity supply was blown up by the previous government.....
» 29/12/2022 9:50:14 AM Alan B., >The American dollar retains its value due exclusively to the tons of gold hel.....
» 23/12/2022 6:25:08 PM david f, It's more complicated than that. Most forms of Unitarianism are monotheistic even.....
» 22/12/2022 1:26:47 PM Apologies for my editing error I did of course mean that: Most people are well aware that .....
» 22/12/2022 1:24:21 PM I think it was about a quarter of a century ago that one of the neocons came up with the d.....
» 22/12/2022 1:18:27 PM >As a general rule, older people are less productive Really? People tend to be at their.....
» 15/12/2022 12:05:25 AM ttbn, >Do you really expect an answer to such an insulting question? Yes, although you.....
» 14/12/2022 7:07:34 PM ttbn, > for every voter who weighs up policies before they vote, there are dozens more .....
» 13/12/2022 10:34:27 PM Evidence of stupidity is abundant on this thread, but not on the government's part. Just .....
» 13/12/2022 2:50:32 PM Armchair, Russian and New Zealand sites are not good sources of information about Oxford. .....
» 12/12/2022 11:23:19 AM The 15 Minute City has a completely different meaning in SA, where many of Adelaide's olde.....
» 7/12/2022 4:15:17 PM The sex ban is the least alarming aspect of this atrocious new criminal code, as in practi.....
» 3/12/2022 2:09:05 AM Max, mhaze and Bazz, Similarly to how lasers don't disperse like ordinary light, microwave.....
» 3/12/2022 2:08:36 AM Armchair, Calories are an obsolete unit of energy that's still in use. So are kilowatt hou.....
» 27/11/2022 1:16:28 PM ttbn, Did we ever have to waste any sympathy on Victorians? If so, I think it will come as.....
» 24/11/2022 9:52:55 AM 'Tis not the season yet, Foxy!.....
» 21/11/2022 1:40:05 AM Armchair, Please do not post lies about me! I NEVER EVER claimed nor thought that we could.....
» 20/11/2022 4:02:58 PM Electric trucks are certainly coming, but the rollout will be gradual. It'll probably star.....
» 18/11/2022 11:01:56 AM Hasbeen, I think a better comparison would be the British Army, which recruits a lot of so.....
» 16/11/2022 11:58:43 AM Clement Attlee was Labour not Labor. As for your questions, I'll answer them when I'm les.....
» 16/11/2022 9:53:33 AM Armchair, Energy can be measured in calories. They're an obsolete metric unit (replaced by.....
» 14/11/2022 8:41:33 PM Alan B., You misunderstand the article. It's nothing to do with actual criminal justice......
» 14/11/2022 2:19:01 AM Armchair, >What makes a terrorist a terrorist? >- The acts themselves, or the 'end j.....
» 10/11/2022 10:46:11 PM ttbn, >Tanveer Ahmed is not a "regime", I never says he was. But mislabeling .....
» 10/11/2022 11:41:46 AM A common feature of despicable authoritarian regimes is they label non violent protestors .....
» 10/11/2022 11:32:45 AM Is Mise, What the law allows and what political reality allows are two very different thin.....
» 10/11/2022 1:35:28 AM Armchair, Do you realise how ludicrous the Russian propaganda you're regurgitating is? Th.....
» 9/11/2022 9:55:38 AM Indy, hadn't realised the definition of "woke" extended to desiring to prevent .....
» 8/11/2022 9:56:35 PM Indy, I know the dozy like to blame the woke for everything they plausibly can and more, b.....
» 8/11/2022 2:30:04 PM What you assume to be hypocrisy is nothing of the sort! 'Tis the change that counts, not s.....
» 7/11/2022 1:23:11 AM Alan B., Former science assistant for a power authority? That's quite surprising consideri.....
» 5/11/2022 10:56:05 AM shadow, >It has been clearly shown that privatising electrical power generation reduces.....
» 5/11/2022 10:49:52 AM Alan B., The government has better things to do with its money than waste it on guaranteei.....
» 1/11/2022 12:50:32 AM mhaze, It's quite simple: Covid is MUCH more deadly than the flu. But because Australia we.....
» 29/10/2022 8:54:02 PM Any idea what's preventing cross party friendships? Is it just intolerance? Or is somethin.....
» 18/10/2022 1:35:00 AM Energex is corporatized, so on what basis do you classify its workers as bureaucrats? I'm.....
» 16/10/2022 9:42:33 PM Indy, >If Homosexuality were natural why hasn't the human body evolved accordingly ? Fi.....
» 14/10/2022 8:54:10 PM >I'll stick with qualified people who know what they are talking about Fine words, ttb.....
» 14/10/2022 5:34:58 PM Everald didn't claim that higher taxes stimulate the economy. He claimed that government s.....
» 14/10/2022 3:37:22 PM Hasbeen, I was intrigued by your last comment so I investigated further. Although wood gas.....
» 12/10/2022 10:52:31 PM ttbn, The report you mentioned is long, so I haven't had time to look at it in much detail.....
» 12/10/2022 12:10:49 PM Does Terry Ryan realise how far Tonga is rom Alice Springs? It should be obvious that the .....
» 11/10/2022 4:59:38 PM ttbn, Nearly half a tonne of lithium for every person on this planet? I think your calcula.....
» 3/10/2022 11:06:07 PM I don't think it's in anyone's interest to exaggerate the crisis. And I don't know where y.....
» 26/09/2022 2:14:21 AM Bazz, >Not a sound answer Aidan, Far sounder than anything you've written! >Shows y.....
» 23/09/2022 1:22:31 PM Early experimental US wind turbines could accurately be described as "bird slicers&qu.....
» 23/09/2022 1:21:18 PM Getting to 100% renewables poses some technical problems, but the solutions are now appare.....
» 23/09/2022 1:20:16 PM OK, Cody. Sorry about the delay - I've been having a few wifi problems lately. For a star.....
» 18/09/2022 1:30:28 AM MPs having republican views is not evidence of perjury. They can remain allied to the King.....
» 16/09/2022 12:54:17 PM If it is true that "96% recommend immediate re-introduction of national service".....
» 15/09/2022 6:57:03 PM Those who rule may look like fools, but as this idiotic article shows, they're nowhere nea.....
» 13/09/2022 2:04:45 PM Paul and mhaze, Although President Grant had a bad reputation in the 20th century, nowaday.....
» 10/09/2022 11:17:30 AM I did watch the video the first time. You seem to have failed to notice the water pipe doe.....
» 9/09/2022 3:11:26 AM Struth, the idiocy on this thread is astounding even by the standards of this board! ttbn.....
» 6/09/2022 1:24:49 AM Armchair, The thing about siphons is water in them goes down more than it goes up. As for.....
» 5/09/2022 2:49:41 AM Bazz, As I said back in 2019: Svenmark was under the impression that global warming had st.....
» 1/09/2022 9:32:25 AM Indy, >Politician would not tell bureaucrats to be incompetent ! Politicians have made .....
» 1/09/2022 9:13:42 AM Armchair, Upholding international law is more important than short term economic considera.....
» 1/09/2022 1:40:41 AM >Sadly, it has now gained Morrison a sympathy vote among conservative voters. Is there .....
» 1/09/2022 1:38:46 AM Indy, Yes, that's because you're still living in the '70s! You refuse to acknowledge the c.....
» 30/08/2022 2:26:09 PM We don't know the extent of Scotty's early involvement – the information isn't publicly av.....
» 30/08/2022 2:06:08 AM Fester, If you want to discuss dispatchable power we can. But don't conflate baseload, dis.....
» 28/08/2022 1:22:39 AM Fester, In Europe it is indeed a different story, as there's quite a lot of baseload nucle.....
» 26/08/2022 1:14:00 AM Shadow, You're correct that "The problem is not with the algorithm that helped locate.....
» 24/08/2022 12:19:43 PM Why do people cling to the absurd belief that we need BASELOAD electricity? It reminds me .....
» 20/08/2022 2:32:31 AM Ezhil, Guns'N'Roses put it better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isCh4kCeNYU Getting bac.....
» 17/08/2022 11:37:14 AM Indy, 'Twas incapable of doing what it was designed to do. In my state it was effectively .....
» 16/08/2022 8:18:49 PM The COVIDSafe app was useless, battery draining crap! I deleted it long ago, and I'm amaze.....
» 15/08/2022 11:43:15 AM We're well past the end of the beginning. Though most people on this board cling on to the.....
» 8/08/2022 11:57:15 PM Indy, >So, why don't you start fixing things without any of the commodities the previou.....
» 8/08/2022 9:47:30 PM Bazz, I presume the emissions from generating electricity would be attributable to the ele.....
» 8/08/2022 8:49:26 PM Who put this title to this article, and why? ____________________________________________.....
» 7/08/2022 8:50:33 AM Indy, What China does with the Yuan is China's business, and I consider it one of Rudd's g.....
» 7/08/2022 12:11:12 AM Hasbeen, It's pretty clear we will not actually go to war with China, but if China goes to.....
» 4/08/2022 10:25:35 PM Ezhil, So you want to deny nations under attack the means to defend themselves? In other w.....
» 4/08/2022 11:28:57 AM >Heavy commuter rail works well for centralised workforces. So it works well for the pr.....
» 26/07/2022 10:02:12 PM Initially I thought Liz Truss was the far better candidate. After watching this week's epi.....
» 19/07/2022 12:37:13 PM Stupid article! Of course Australia can afford it! Firstly we're a rich country. Secondly,.....
» 4/07/2022 8:51:02 PM Alan B., >I mean a wind turbine needs to turn for thirty years just to offset the carb.....
» 2/07/2022 7:12:05 PM Indy, >You're only making academic sense, not practical sensible sense ! Yes, I'm maki.....
» 1/07/2022 5:12:09 PM Indy, Australia has long been a no religion nation. It will never be Hindu or Muslim......
» 1/07/2022 11:59:11 AM Indy, >It's way too late to think along those lines. Says who? It was predicted at the .....
» 1/07/2022 1:08:35 AM Viv, >What is happening in Ukraine today is absolutely awful, but it will not be helped.....
» 23/06/2022 7:57:17 PM Armchair, >Is there any reason why the entire family in this case shouldn't be names an.....
» 22/06/2022 7:19:30 PM >Market failure has arisen because the price of money is not pegged or defined to anyth.....
» 22/06/2022 7:07:54 PM "Australia does not want your brand of conservatism!" Yet... still many people .....
» 21/06/2022 9:38:32 PM mhaze, As I recall, the intention was that the vote could not be exhausted, so you had to .....
» 20/06/2022 10:38:00 PM mhaze, ISTRa few years back, when everyone had to fill out al the boxes, putting the same .....
» 20/06/2022 12:40:01 AM Is Mise, Do you have a link for the experimental tidal power generator in Galway Bay? The .....
» 19/06/2022 6:48:05 PM Is Mise, I think you're conflating tidal power with wave power. They're very different thi.....
» 19/06/2022 6:39:48 PM Fester, Although renewable energy supply is erratic, it's predictable. We have (and use) t.....
» 18/06/2022 8:22:18 PM ttbn, I don't know where you got your figures from, but according to http://opennem.org.au.....
» 18/06/2022 7:38:40 PM Sorry, just noticed I've just noticed my typo/autocorrect error: "witnessing" sh.....
» 18/06/2022 5:03:56 PM thinkabit, Actually mandatory registration for engineers is quite a new thing. IIRC only V.....
» 10/06/2022 10:31:54 PM Indy, I don't get your reference to jargon. Is there something I've said you don't underst.....
» 10/06/2022 1:14:08 AM I don't know all the details about the crimes mentioned in this thread, but I very much do.....
» 9/06/2022 9:16:30 PM Armchair, Sorry, I thought I posted the answer last night, but it appears I didn't. A mag.....
» 8/06/2022 8:56:22 PM Indy, Your post would make more sense if your first exclamation mark were a colon! Who ar.....
» 8/06/2022 3:29:17 PM indy, From where do you get the delusion that the decent young would regard national servi.....
» 3/06/2022 6:13:18 PM Bazz, >No you did not mention hydrogen, but your suggestion of installing turbines a mu.....
» 1/06/2022 1:35:33 AM Armchair, Wow, you must be really really really crap at chess - you lose a rook and you th.....
» 31/05/2022 11:33:21 PM Canem, 1. When I was in high school, we were taught electronegativity was the attraction a.....
» 30/05/2022 11:21:17 AM Canem, > Professor Sadoway says- to make a battery it's best to take one electrode from.....
» 28/05/2022 10:46:59 AM ttbn, >Albanese has said he wants to ‘end the climate wars’ and create a ‘renewable ene.....
» 28/05/2022 2:12:41 AM Canem, >It's interesting- with respect- that Aiden says in his final point that the Lef.....
» 28/05/2022 1:34:01 AM Canem, >It might be an interesting exercise to see if there is even enough concentrated.....
» 27/05/2022 2:23:25 PM Canem, Geoinfomatics is seldom maths heavy any more. It used to be, but software products .....
» 27/05/2022 12:58:48 PM Can't you discuss the issue without resorting to lies, Shadow? Electrical power prices ar.....
» 26/05/2022 7:24:59 PM ttbn, The problem has been worsening for a long time, and it's not something that can be s.....
» 25/05/2022 9:54:25 AM Even when your percentage falls, a win's a win!.....
» 24/05/2022 5:43:45 PM o sung wu, I very much agree that we should avoid war thorough thorough preparation. But i.....
» 22/05/2022 6:31:12 PM Indy, Do you mean the accidental result of people choosing ScoMo over Shorten last time?.....
» 22/05/2022 6:27:11 PM I know the metaphor is overused, but this really does look like a case of ignoring the ele.....
» 22/05/2022 6:18:00 PM Armchair, >"If the cost of business goes up 8%, why would they have to raise their.....
» 22/05/2022 3:27:59 PM Is Mise So you stand to lose $1 in race 2, $2 in race 3, $3 in race 4 and $4 in race 5, me.....
» 21/05/2022 9:48:22 AM Armchair, If the cost of business goes up 8%, why would they have to raise their prices ne.....
» 21/05/2022 9:40:13 AM Shadow, I regard understanding of issues as much more important than memory of statistics......
» 20/05/2022 10:36:24 PM While the Libs will probably lose Boothby, it's unlikely to go to an independent - the ALP.....
» 15/05/2022 12:51:08 AM ttbn, If thats what Matt Canavan really believes, it just goes to show he's an idiot unfit.....
» 11/05/2022 4:12:43 PM Canem, >Not sure how a site can be both independent and progressive but there you go- t.....
» 11/05/2022 3:59:55 PM Josephus, Understanding of english isn't boolean. So although our citizens are meant to un.....
» 10/05/2022 9:38:47 AM individual, >Displaced people aren't laughable in my eyes Nor mine. But imagining PC (i.....
» 9/05/2022 3:40:18 PM Paul. Are you sure you're not conflating our LDP with the Russian party of the same name? .....
» 8/05/2022 2:28:41 PM individual, When I said "we" I meant Australia as a nation. Federal governments .....
» 7/05/2022 1:30:25 AM Armchair, >Christianity isn't the be-all end-of of what is good and decent. True, and I.....
» 6/05/2022 11:24:08 AM mhaze, >You say inflation is a temporary matter caused by supply-side problems. Not qui.....
» 6/05/2022 2:39:42 AM Indvidual, Calem's description is a strawman. Nobody's suggesting we give everything. But .....
» 5/05/2022 6:57:32 PM Jayb, You said >Just as well that Australians are not really good Christians. That's w.....
» 5/05/2022 6:55:28 PM Canem, >Bringing in immigrants and refugees into Australia probably makes the >world.....
» 5/05/2022 10:12:54 AM Jayb, So you think being a religious desert is preferable? ______________________________.....
» 5/05/2022 1:57:27 AM I think you're overestimating the problem. Headline inflation is high, but that's largely .....
» 4/05/2022 7:19:03 PM Jayb, We're not a good Christian country. A good Christian country would always welcome re.....
» 2/05/2022 7:52:15 PM Graham, Corruption is not the same as illegality. My first example was something that was.....
» 2/05/2022 4:42:01 PM (apologies for the typo: "not on..." should be "not only...").....
» 2/05/2022 4:39:51 PM Graham, > If a significant proportion of the population runs around saying a country ha.....
» 29/04/2022 2:20:31 AM Individual, >introduce a National Service & only someone who has served can be eligible.....
» 27/04/2022 9:23:51 AM I think Scomo's in trouble, but it has nothing to do with that trivial incident. He's camp.....
» 21/04/2022 11:22:18 PM Foxy, >I wish that I could have seen the debate for myself instead of relying on other'.....
» 16/04/2022 7:19:19 PM Foxy, >Sorry to hear about your Barramundi Don't be! It tasted good. Wild caught Barram.....
» 15/04/2022 2:13:43 PM And to complicate things still further, I just got some Barramundi (from Aldi) out of the .....
» 15/04/2022 1:56:01 PM Barramundi's a type of Sea Bass, so I can see how some people might confuse it with Basa. .....
» 13/04/2022 8:45:23 AM Josephus, Yes, Flannery got it wrong; he underestimated the amount of rain that would come.....
» 13/04/2022 2:19:54 AM ttbn, That sort of climate change denier certainly does exist - we used to have one on thi.....
» 13/04/2022 12:20:42 AM Nice try, Hasbeen, but if pay rates had continued to stay ridiculously low, there'd be the.....
» 12/04/2022 12:18:52 PM Hasbeen, the starting point isn't the unemployment rate; that's just the minority of peopl.....
» 11/04/2022 12:11:23 PM Armchair, Which is it: "out to nowhere" or "the other side of the city".....
» 11/04/2022 9:27:40 AM ttbn, > This is about one of those gutless bed wetters, not sure enough of his own beli.....
» 10/04/2022 10:40:23 PM thinkabit In theory you're right, but not in practice; I wouldn't vote for a SocMo support.....
» 10/04/2022 10:30:21 PM Fester, I'm not doubting the French were sensible in building nuclear power stations. But .....
» 10/04/2022 8:00:38 PM Armchair, 3500 bottles in four hours is believable. 20 in 2 hours isn't. ________________.....
» 10/04/2022 1:26:10 PM Armchair, I think your friend is having you on. _________________________________________.....
» 10/04/2022 12:32:42 AM Canen, Private equity firms work by buying businesses cheap and selling them at a profit. .....
» 9/04/2022 9:08:30 PM Bazz, Yes you've got the value of renewables wrong, >As on usual figures it would aver.....
» 6/04/2022 2:32:34 PM Shadow, last time I checked there was no evidence Hunter had committed a crime at all, let.....
» 4/04/2022 5:44:59 PM That's meaningless drivel, Indiy, since everyone has a cultural background even if it isn'.....
» 4/04/2022 2:27:50 PM Paul, Sorry, just checked and found you're right - it was Hasbeen, not Indy, who mentioned.....
» 4/04/2022 2:23:14 PM Individual, It may be clear to you that pink elephants are getting in the way of everyone .....
» 4/04/2022 12:33:57 PM Individual, >Only in your mind ! No, not only in my mind, but also in the minds of many.....
» 4/04/2022 9:22:16 AM Paul, The trouble with your witticisms is they invariably lack wit. And in the case of the.....
» 3/04/2022 11:15:32 PM Paul, as ridiculously out of touch as Individual is, even he isn't proposing breaking rock.....
» 3/04/2022 2:06:34 PM ttbn, Are you feeling OK? You've just written something I entirely agree with! __________.....
» 1/04/2022 11:47:45 AM individual, When I was last in Britain it still had dinosaur unions, wanting to be paid ac.....
» 29/03/2022 10:23:04 AM Have the courts set a precedent, Paul? Could they force the Liberal Party, who are the cou.....
» 26/03/2022 11:53:32 PM Bazz, We're not seeing evidence of that changing the climate. You seem to have blind fait.....
» 25/03/2022 1:00:15 AM ttbn, One of the main features of delusionality is a lack of self awareness. Thus you thin.....
» 23/03/2022 12:11:53 PM ttbn, why do you equate Conservatives with Climate Delusionalists? Plenty of conservatives.....
» 22/03/2022 7:59:06 AM Shadow, I looked it up. The following is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriori : The .....
» 14/03/2022 3:56:44 PM I hadn't heard of it either, but it's at http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/fake-news-shi.....
» 13/03/2022 10:04:05 PM Paul, if NZ becomes Aotearoa, surely that will be the result of the merging of cultures ra.....
» 10/03/2022 1:36:53 PM ttbn, >Americans are paying the equivalent of $3 for a litre of petrol Are you sure tha.....
» 9/03/2022 10:13:44 AM Putin is Human. NATO doesn't have to fight him eventually - sooner or later he will die of.....
» 3/03/2022 1:28:00 PM Alan B., The problem is that nuclear power is expensive. It's been promising to become che.....
» 3/03/2022 9:59:27 AM >Some advocates seem to think that producing hydrogen by electrolysis will make it chea.....
» 1/03/2022 1:12:24 PM Individual, Supposing more of the water was diverted inland: then what do you think should.....
» 1/03/2022 10:12:06 AM Hasbeen, Think they could do it a lot better. A day or two ago I hear an interview where i.....
» 25/02/2022 5:45:20 PM Fester, >But that is what happens when you import your power from another country via a.....
» 25/02/2022 11:46:31 AM Fester, You claim nuclear can be built quickly, so why isn't that happening? Lots of solar.....
» 25/02/2022 1:57:21 AM Fester, Declaring something to be fantasy does not make it so. Which part of the Eurasian .....
» 23/02/2022 1:50:11 AM Fester (Continued) Despite checking urbandictionary, I don't really understand your Capta.....
» 23/02/2022 1:48:47 AM Fester, > I am trying to make economic sense of renewable energy, but there is none to .....
» 22/02/2022 5:57:52 PM Hasbeen, That's a recipe for high electricity prices, as the threat of immediate loss of c.....
» 22/02/2022 7:09:51 AM Bazz, >I am well aware that my little battery would not produce 700Mw in practise. So y.....
» 20/02/2022 12:47:17 AM Bazz, I understand the current title of the rhyme is Ten Little Soldier Boys... Your work.....
» 5/02/2022 8:55:47 PM I'm very disappointed with Albo on the Barnaby Joyce issue. Barnaby Joyce was one of the .....
» 3/02/2022 2:06:25 PM ttbn, >Two parties doing the same thing is just the same as one party doing it No it i.....
» 3/02/2022 1:01:12 AM It's pretty obvious why someone would make up the story: to suit their political agenda. .....
» 1/02/2022 11:31:02 AM ttbn, thinkabit has a very good point to make: the hackathon you're so concerned about was.....
» 26/01/2022 5:07:36 PM I think the song says it better than I could: http://youtu.be/fSDM-eAeviw.....
» 26/01/2022 9:25:09 AM mhaze, >Parse all you like but if a kid having inappropriate showers with daddy isn't b.....
» 26/01/2022 12:58:04 AM mhaze, You're lying when you assert Ashley Biden's diary supports your defamatory claim. F.....
» 24/01/2022 12:02:22 AM mhaze, >Well that might be your definition but not that of most experts who heard Biden.....
» 23/01/2022 3:21:07 PM mhaze, >Annexation is exactly what a minor incursion is. What gives you that UTTERLY RI.....
» 22/01/2022 11:30:11 PM Bazz, The link works but the press conference doesn't start until about an hour in. ____.....
» 21/01/2022 9:27:00 AM >The effort to make a connection between the present and the past may be well intended .....
» 19/01/2022 12:53:47 PM Bazz, Two 30% losses would be much closer to 50% than 70%. But I've heard elsewhere that t.....
» 19/01/2022 2:13:47 AM Sorry, I seem to be terrible at spotting typos today. Of course I meant to write "mor.....
» 19/01/2022 12:38:32 AM >It is the partial effect of these inefficient vaccines that force & assist the virus t.....
» 18/01/2022 10:13:56 AM >If you believe vaccines work, then 85 per cent should be above any threshold >for h.....
» 18/01/2022 10:02:03 AM (sorry about the typo above: "would be permitted..." should read "should be.....
» 18/01/2022 10:00:01 AM I agree there should be a ban on abortions for this purpose. However I think it would be p.....
» 18/01/2022 9:49:27 AM Bazz, Sorry about not responding earlier. >When a still night occurs and you end up n.....
» 11/01/2022 10:54:27 AM That's fair enough for nuclear, but it would be very hard to justify including natural gas.....
» 11/01/2022 12:57:22 AM Alison Jane, >Blatant sheep like Aiden... Actually the blatant sheep generally dislike .....
» 10/01/2022 9:53:11 AM Yet another wishful thinking fantasist claiming to be a climate change realist. No doubt m.....
» 9/01/2022 12:03:23 PM mhaze, Since Foxy is unwilling to continue, I'll explain: Your logic is flawed because yo.....
» 4/01/2022 10:54:47 AM Hasbeen, if there really was evidence that CO2 was displacing water vapour in the air, the.....
» 4/01/2022 9:26:40 AM individual, Isn't alcohol dependence n Australia now lower than any time since WW2? Should.....
» 4/01/2022 9:02:11 AM Fester, The reason French nuclear power is so cheap is mainly due to the time it was built.....
» 3/01/2022 2:26:09 PM rache, Drinking a small amount of distilled water is not lethal. I think you may be confla.....
» 2/01/2022 1:12:20 PM Australia has much to inspire poetry about And yet a poet laureate we're better off withou.....
» 1/01/2022 11:24:29 PM Bazz, >There have been attempts to ban the publication of John Abbots paper.. Do you me.....
» 30/12/2021 11:26:54 AM This article is contradictory almost to the point of meaninglessness! It acknowledges tha.....
» 28/12/2021 2:11:10 PM NathanJ, >No people haven't voted yet, I understand that, but the polls usually come o.....
» 27/12/2021 8:58:32 AM Graham, >There is little difference in the infectiousness of vaccinated or unvaccinated.....
» 20/12/2021 11:28:06 AM Scott seems so keen to argue semantics that he's missed the point completely. The senators.....
» 18/12/2021 9:22:53 AM Rail is a long term investment; typically the numbers of people using it start off low and.....
» 15/12/2021 4:23:39 PM How did they get back into power? I thought it was over a year until Malaysia's next elect.....
» 15/12/2021 3:33:08 PM Did they really say "unchanged"? Or did you add that assumption? Culture is dyna.....
» 12/12/2021 8:55:48 PM AIUI AdBlue is not a fuel additive but an exhaust system additive to reduce NOx pollution......
» 25/11/2021 9:26:11 PM The postwar "economic miracle" happened despite, not because of, Bretton Woods, .....
» 24/11/2021 8:50:32 AM Josephus, > The New York Times’ stated goal with the “1619 Project” is to influence the.....
» 22/11/2021 8:34:32 AM We have indeed become more like China, but it's nothing to do with marxism or even left ve.....
» 13/11/2021 1:32:30 AM Most of the infrared in our atmosphere is not the incoming solar radiation, but the back r.....
» 11/11/2021 1:41:32 PM LEGO, >I presume that means "I had better start doing some research which I just k.....
» 11/11/2021 12:24:54 AM LEGO, >If you are one of the people who are swayed by evidence, then where is the >.....
» 10/11/2021 1:55:16 PM The stupidity of this article starts with the title: quite a lot of our food comes from tr.....
» 9/11/2021 6:48:54 AM Hasbeen, if you're referring to Scotty from Marketing, I disagree. His bland assurances ha.....
» 8/11/2021 3:47:21 PM LEGO (continued) I agree with Eisenhower, and it's a shame subsequent presidents ignored .....
» 8/11/2021 3:45:22 PM LEGO, Far from advocating human induced climate change, I advocate stopping it because I a.....
» 8/11/2021 12:08:55 AM For anyone still gullible enough to believe Canavan's rant, I suggest you watch the curren.....
» 6/11/2021 1:00:35 PM LEGO, >Net zero means net zero. That statement of the obvious gives me no indication wh.....
» 5/11/2021 4:07:34 PM This entire thread seems to be based on the assumption that people are unable to tell the .....
» 5/11/2021 11:31:47 AM It is truly worrying that the imbecile who wrote this crap is a government MP. Fortunately.....
» 3/11/2021 3:20:28 PM Alan B., But what's the real cause of the production cuts? In case I didn't put it suffic.....
» 3/11/2021 9:03:04 AM Others have claimed that the setup time taken for oil companies to start extraction means .....
» 31/10/2021 2:39:57 PM >That is a load of nonsense That attitude is unacceptable. There are valid concerns ab.....
» 29/10/2021 12:17:03 PM ttbn, >Morrison is self-serving, has no values, knows zero So far so accurate! >205.....
» 29/10/2021 12:10:30 PM Hasbeen, >These disappeared, probably some greeny initiative Sometimes I wonder whether.....
» 29/10/2021 12:44:00 AM Armchair, Where did you get the idea the queen wants you to live in a tiny house? Is it th.....
» 28/10/2021 1:54:24 PM Much of the infrastructure that a higher population would require us to have would be desi.....
» 27/10/2021 3:48:14 PM Would it be possible to change the firing mechanism in prop guns so that they can't fire l.....
» 26/10/2021 9:17:44 AM A truly IDIOTIC article. Science is not being worshipped; it is being utilised to predict.....
» 25/10/2021 9:34:23 PM ttbn, >Talking about 'elimination' is pretty daft when we still have the common cold an.....
» 25/10/2021 1:07:24 PM Foxy, That ABC report you linked to didn't mention the apparently political murder charge .....
» 22/10/2021 8:48:08 AM LEGO, You're the one posting complete rubbish - you're ignoring the facts and trying to us.....
» 22/10/2021 1:06:13 AM mhaze, Fairy dust is nothing more than an audio effect - like a long echo changing pitch. .....
» 21/10/2021 2:13:57 PM mhaze, what is "perfectly obvious" to you is UTTERLY RIDICULOUS to anyone with a.....
» 21/10/2021 11:41:04 AM >...it must include nuclear as the only reliable baseload power source which has zero e.....
» 19/10/2021 3:12:17 PM Alan B., Corruption may start with political donations, but it certainly doesn't end there.....
» 18/10/2021 8:48:00 PM Steele, Actually it was under the Major government that most of Britain's coal mines close.....
» 18/10/2021 11:08:37 AM They weren't forced - they made a commercial decision - see https://www.independent.co.uk/.....
» 16/10/2021 8:56:41 PM Hasbeen, you say that but fail to identify any errors in what I say. It looks very much t.....
» 16/10/2021 5:24:50 PM Josephus, >How is steel made witout Coal? There are various ways; the easiest is just t.....
» 15/10/2021 5:19:40 PM Josepus, you know nobody is aiming for gross zero, so why do you post disinformation? ___.....
» 14/10/2021 9:37:34 PM JBowyer, > I loved your line about reduced wholesale electricity prices! But will you l.....
» 14/10/2021 7:54:50 AM Paul, that belief is one thing, but it doesn't justify throwing away your vote. As for wh.....
» 14/10/2021 12:30:53 AM Paul, WTF is wrong with you? Our electoral system is quite possibly the best in the world,.....
» 13/10/2021 3:42:53 PM Terapinn recently held the MOVE Asia 2021 virtual conference, and I got a free ticket - so.....
» 13/10/2021 3:10:47 PM ttbn, >Newspoll shows that over 50%of Australians claim to want 100% renewable energy b.....
» 12/10/2021 1:08:47 AM Jay Cee Ess, what Mr Clavert has said here about Christiana Figueres is as close to a word.....
» 11/10/2021 10:06:37 AM Considering the libellous claim this article makes about Christiana Figueres, I am quite s.....
» 11/10/2021 1:05:39 AM Individual, Are you sure you want me to answer that? Or would you, like many on this board.....
» 10/10/2021 6:30:14 PM individual, What do you base that assumption on? Are you forgetting the waste would float .....
» 10/10/2021 6:14:19 PM individual, Why do you assume it won't get taken out of the volcano again? The lava moves .....
» 10/10/2021 5:33:41 PM Steele, >In what part of that scenario do you see any 'ultimate victory' for the Palest.....
» 10/10/2021 11:22:25 AM Individual, To properly destroy medical waste it should be heated to 1100°C. Doing so in v.....
» 8/10/2021 6:21:25 PM Foxy, >They would be important assets in any allied effort to deter war with > China.....
» 8/10/2021 6:00:14 PM shadow, He set the Liberals up for nearly 2 decades even though Labor held power most of t.....
» 7/10/2021 1:26:49 PM Steele, You seem to be among those who see the issue as one of Israel versus Palestine. Tr.....
» 6/10/2021 8:36:47 PM Bazz, Don't know how you could've reached that conclusion. It didn't look to me like this .....
» 6/10/2021 2:59:25 PM Good, but why is the cartoon absent?.....
» 4/10/2021 10:22:48 AM I see Tony Abbott's learned nothing. I can't say I'm surprised......
» 4/10/2021 1:00:08 AM Wild Man, you have COMPLETELY misunderstood my post. I'm not saying unemployment is accept.....
» 1/10/2021 4:00:28 PM mhaze, When I say they're low cost, I mean they're low cost. I have NEVER EVER pretended t.....
» 1/10/2021 11:38:16 AM Shadow, A grovelling apology admitting nothing they printed defamed Porter? Anyway, pleas.....
» 1/10/2021 2:40:37 AM Peter Lang, Saying "wrong on all points" doesn't make it so, and it's pretty obv.....
» 30/09/2021 5:21:10 PM What ridiculous whinging! There's no good reason why Israel should not fund its own defenc.....
» 30/09/2021 5:08:29 PM You claim I'm poorly informed, but you don't provide any evidence whatsoever! Nothing in t.....
» 30/09/2021 2:35:37 PM Peter Lang, Renewables were high cost back in the noughties, but the technology has moved .....
» 29/09/2021 11:19:59 AM Shadow, ISTM the really big difference was that SHY's donors were genuinely anonymous, not.....
» 28/09/2021 8:58:17 AM I'd thought the supermarkets had become pretty good at marking down perishables to avoid w.....
» 24/09/2021 2:17:56 AM Canem, >If one traces history- I believe there is a link between the Methodists, to the.....
» 20/09/2021 7:07:24 PM All I can say is good riddance - the country's far better off without him in charge of any.....
» 20/09/2021 12:16:58 AM Hasbeen, If you read articles by actual journalists rather than bloggers, you'd see the gr.....
» 19/09/2021 11:20:48 PM Undertakers are businesses just like any other and the work needs doing, so I don't see a .....
» 18/09/2021 6:51:25 PM >Better to study the real science Chris, belief is for religion. I urge you to do like.....
» 17/09/2021 4:11:43 PM John Muscat, Though I don't share Farrelly's opinion, I notice you have failed to supply a.....
» 16/09/2021 9:55:35 PM ttbn, The claim "God helps those who help themselves" is widely believed by the .....
» 16/09/2021 12:47:26 PM Of course there's a danger! Indeed the danger is arguably greatest to evangelical Christia.....
» 16/09/2021 12:25:27 PM (sorry for the typo. Of course I meant ...tell the difference between mathematics and erro.....
» 16/09/2021 12:22:54 PM Hasbeen, Unlike you, most people are sufficiently intelligent to tell the differenced betw.....
» 16/09/2021 2:36:10 AM Hasbeen, >There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. Finally something we agre.....
» 15/09/2021 3:16:42 AM shadow, In the '80s an overvalued rouble meant the Soviet Union was almost bankrupt before.....
» 14/09/2021 5:08:23 PM Yuyutsu, There are times when it looks very much like you're trolling, and this is one of .....
» 14/09/2021 12:49:24 PM If what this article claims true, heads must roll! Supporting terrorism has no place in th.....
» 14/09/2021 10:23:22 AM Foxy, As I recall, there was a political pressure group in the 1990s that produced T shirt.....
» 14/09/2021 10:07:48 AM There is no credible threat to Australia that nuclear weapons would be of any use defendin.....
» 13/09/2021 4:33:22 PM I used to oppose changing the flag, but after hearing Jerry Seinfeld's criticism of it I w.....
» 11/09/2021 10:59:32 AM Hasbeen, What "crazy economy busting laws" do you imagine SA has?.....
» 10/09/2021 5:13:53 PM I too feed them, though never good beef. There are two flaws in your suggestion, though: .....
» 7/09/2021 11:37:57 AM diver, >Between the two, aspirations of the working classes were lowered to the level &.....
» 7/09/2021 2:58:58 AM mhaze, >The importance of the events of September 480 BC can hardly be overstated On t.....
» 31/08/2021 9:31:26 AM individual, > Do you think Australians have dumbed down sufficiently to vote Labor in a.....
» 30/08/2021 11:43:47 AM ttbn, > The LINOS (Liberals In Name Only)... Do you mean the conservatives in the Liber.....
» 28/08/2021 9:06:14 PM Hasbeen, why do you consider such an easy question to be difficult? Of course Covid vacci.....
» 27/08/2021 11:18:32 AM (Sorry, typo and autocorrect error above: "decided" should have been "devis.....
» 27/08/2021 11:16:20 AM Foxy, Where did you get the idea that "Scotty from Marketing" was ever good at h.....
» 25/08/2021 11:18:34 AM Expressing the debt as a per capita figure doesn't make it relevant to us personally, but .....
» 20/08/2021 11:34:11 AM When the Right reject the Australian value of A FAIR GO FOR ALL, and everyone who doesn't .....
» 18/08/2021 11:37:48 AM >The Green Wreckers who destroyed Australia's cheap reliable electricity are now target.....
» 16/08/2021 11:10:52 AM >Morrison is so pragmatic that nobody knows what his values, if any, are. True - I cert.....
» 14/08/2021 11:22:32 PM mhaze, It varies from country to country, but humans are generally pretty good at modifyin.....
» 14/08/2021 11:21:41 PM Bazz, It's not just a case of one following the other; it's a positive feedback loop. Incr.....
» 6/08/2021 7:19:54 PM #david singer >When was there a nation-state called Palestine? Since the Oslo accord.....
» 6/08/2021 1:21:26 AM You seem to have overlooked the significance of a key point you've written: > The PLO .....
» 5/08/2021 10:46:13 AM Hi Foxy, There's quite a lo o see in York - and not just from the 14th century, so be sure.....
» 4/08/2021 2:30:19 AM Hasbeen, I was explaining what happens in Britain. Bosnia and the Middle East are not in B.....
» 3/08/2021 5:11:53 PM LEGO, Your arguments were so ludicrous that responding to them was a low priority. I certa.....
» 3/08/2021 3:26:26 PM Yuyutsu, No, I make no such implications......
» 3/08/2021 3:18:32 PM Foxy, No, people don't reman in ethnic groups for centuries - they fade into the backgroun.....
» 3/08/2021 2:22:02 PM Yuyutsu, I'm very surprised you haven't heard of neocons before. The word is a shortened f.....
» 2/08/2021 1:41:27 PM England certainly isn't a "mongrel island" because it isn't an island. The Scots.....
» 1/08/2021 2:57:41 PM Alan B., Gas is not the answer, but I'm curious as to where you got the idea that every ho.....
» 1/08/2021 2:17:07 AM Hasbeen, only the empty in the head believe that it can't. What you see as insurmountable .....
» 31/07/2021 3:19:09 PM Hasbeen, > last year Germany increased it's coal consumption by 29%, What is your sourc.....
» 30/07/2021 1:51:52 PM Graham, >Brisbane's budget for the Olympics is $5 billion. This would make it the cheap.....
» 28/07/2021 11:07:13 AM Yuyutsu, It's a tactic that was probably invented (and if not invented, certainly embraced.....
» 25/07/2021 11:51:27 PM Struth, thinkabit, going into more detail won't prevent you from losing the argument! Ind.....
» 25/07/2021 12:16:33 PM in the 1990s, Ros Kelly was forced to resign from cabinet (and not return) after a procedu.....
» 24/07/2021 11:16:10 AM thinkabit, >And of course risk aversion is related positively to selfishness! There's n.....
» 23/07/2021 1:43:20 PM tbn, >I have found that most people who are against x are usually for y, so there is no.....
» 22/07/2021 6:51:16 PM Steele, The Gold Standard was a catastrophic economic policy. I'd say NSW resembles it pre.....
» 22/07/2021 1:10:13 PM The first Apple computer to feature a lithium battery (the PowerBook 5300 if I recall corr.....
» 21/07/2021 7:24:15 PM thinkabit, >But who is going to enforce the duress? In a selfish world the soldiers doi.....
» 20/07/2021 4:42:48 PM LEGO, >There is a saying that "If you are not a socialist when you are young, you .....
» 20/07/2021 4:38:42 PM thinkabit, >No war would ever be fought if soldiers were selfish. FALSE. They'd be foug.....
» 18/07/2021 2:29:53 PM Hey Individual, you're looking good in your new tinfoil hat! Not really looking smart, but.....
» 18/07/2021 11:35:52 AM individual, Unfortunately any attempt to talk about wasting our taxes is seen by you, and .....
» 14/07/2021 12:25:40 PM Alan B., I don't have a vested interest in the current convoluted system - indeed over the.....
» 14/07/2021 12:09:28 PM Individual, Wow, you're really getting ahead of yourself there - not only (wrongly) guessi.....
» 13/07/2021 8:32:43 PM Individual, Apologies for my attribution failure a couple of hours ago......
» 13/07/2021 5:54:09 PM Hasbeen, OK, so they have a commission to do it now. But the fact remains: contrary to Ind.....
» 13/07/2021 10:31:31 AM WTF? - Not Again, It shouldn't be controversial, but: • It would make most of the controve.....
» 13/07/2021 10:14:11 AM WTF? - Not Again, Firstly, the point of a UBI is that all citizens would be on it (otherwi.....
» 13/07/2021 9:52:12 AM Individual, You seem to have quite a fanciful idea of what unions do. The politicians' sal.....
» 12/07/2021 7:29:33 PM individual, WTF is your definition of a demand? I ask because it seems at odds with the en.....
» 12/07/2021 5:21:43 PM individual, >What, like asking for a pay increase during the Pandemic ? Yes. Not all e.....
» 12/07/2021 6:16:54 AM individual, A real rock? Or an imaginary one? I ask because Australian unions nowadays und.....
» 11/07/2021 12:08:21 PM diver, I used to have a lot of respect for Barnaby Joyce in the Howard era, but that's lon.....
» 11/07/2021 1:32:26 AM ttbn, Criticising the views of others is a normal art of most internet discussion groups, .....
» 10/07/2021 9:02:50 PM diver, I'm not happy to have anyone plundered - pay rates must comply with the relevant aw.....
» 10/07/2021 12:17:12 AM diver, > Asians and farm work don’t mix, I’ve seen it first hand Please explain! Who d.....
» 8/07/2021 11:01:22 AM Individual, If there's an enemy within, it's those who are trying to divide us. That's not.....
» 8/07/2021 10:14:41 AM ttbn, As long as Dutton serves as a cabinet minister, the PM decides what he must do. And .....
» 7/07/2021 10:20:22 PM individual, What union demands, exactly? The unions don't run the country, and the days of.....
» 24/06/2021 10:54:10 AM It's very much a stretch call F.A. Hayek "one of the great minds of the twentieth cen.....
» 23/06/2021 11:20:24 AM > ...is a very thin reed on which to hang the theory that Morrison may well be a fellow.....
» 18/06/2021 4:12:51 AM Armchair, PC culture and conservatism both seem to me to be intolerant ideologies that I o.....
» 17/06/2021 11:54:12 AM shadow, I don't think anyone is trying to imply, nor even thinking, that the PM and Tim St.....
» 17/06/2021 10:46:48 AM >"Bit by bit, they have taken control of every facet of the party … there are almo.....
» 10/06/2021 3:34:23 PM Graham Young, > The whole fandangle is a version of Marx's labour theory of value that .....
» 5/06/2021 2:54:46 AM ttbn, What happened was NZ demonstrated an elimination strategy could work, and Australia .....
» 4/06/2021 12:17:05 PM Armchair, >You're essentially rewarding people for their criminal behaviour and punishi.....
» 4/06/2021 11:51:52 AM farrightloonyindenial, The ABC were certainly doing their job. Though the allegations were.....
» 4/06/2021 2:49:49 AM ttbn, The person who said that may well be a financial genius, but certainly isn't an econ.....
» 3/06/2021 3:12:00 PM Taswegian and farrightloonyindenial, You seem to be suggesting the ABC made up the allega.....
» 3/06/2021 11:30:51 AM Armchair, did you actually read the SBS report you linked to? >Demanding the rules be .....
» 3/06/2021 10:10:41 AM Bazz, >However there is no definitive proof that CO2 is causing global warming. We kno.....
» 30/05/2021 5:07:47 PM Diver, you seem to want criticism to be suppressed in Australia! Do I understand you corre.....
» 30/05/2021 4:21:41 PM Bazz, there's no inflection and nothing special about the figure of seven. The near vertic.....
» 29/05/2021 10:27:09 PM Diver, Why do you see the author as demonizing Malaysia? The insidious attitude that criti.....
» 29/05/2021 10:11:22 PM No, Hasbeen, I understood Bazz's point perfectly.. And I also understand that whether some.....
» 29/05/2021 6:44:53 PM Bazz, "When do you recharge them and where do you get the power to do so ?" When.....
» 28/05/2021 2:23:02 AM Bazz, If you've never seen 20% then you can't've been looking much; wind and solar supplie.....
» 27/05/2021 10:42:19 AM individual, You've been lied to. See http://www.snopes.com/fact-check/electric-cars-abando.....
» 26/05/2021 1:46:27 PM individual, Of course that's the impression you had. It's the impression the government ar.....
» 26/05/2021 1:45:32 AM I think Alon's got it the wrong way round. There can be peace without a process o reconcil.....
» 23/05/2021 6:01:16 PM There are circumstances in which protests work. The thing governments are usually most con.....
» 20/05/2021 2:32:49 AM Individual, Hydrogen can be used to power trains, and may be regarded as a practical alter.....
» 19/05/2021 2:57:59 AM individual, I initially thought what you stated was rather obvious, but then you seemed to.....
» 19/05/2021 2:21:27 AM Paul1405, you're failing to think! ttbn, a nuanced opinion is no less real than an extrem.....
» 13/05/2021 10:41:07 PM individual, So were you lying or trolling when you said to Steele "You believe one lo.....
» 13/05/2021 6:38:29 PM mhaze, > it ought to be clear to even the dullest that we don't have a 'lack of money'......
» 13/05/2021 10:14:06 AM thinkabit, There are indeed essential differences between government and private spending .....
» 13/05/2021 2:03:24 AM Cumberland, Where the creation of physical wealth is being hampered by a lack of money, in.....
» 12/05/2021 4:25:17 PM Cumberland, What you imagine to be a case of the population being fooled is more likely to.....
» 11/05/2021 12:01:40 PM >The latest one, the pipeline in the US is a prime example. >As a result the whole E.....
» 11/05/2021 11:57:12 AM You're half right, Shadow: Sustainable development is the answer......
» 11/05/2021 12:31:26 AM mhaze, Worshippers? I'm pretty sure the number of people who worship David Attenborough is.....
» 10/05/2021 12:37:10 PM Mr 0, The government is not the state......
» 10/05/2021 12:36:49 PM No, mhaze, I didn't miss your last post. It did not contain any evidence whatsoever to sup.....
» 10/05/2021 1:43:41 AM >It seems everyone who disagrees with whatever Aidan wants to be true is a liar. No, .....
» 9/05/2021 8:53:00 AM individual, Why do you put blind faith in dubious sources? Anyway, considering you claime.....
» 7/05/2021 1:42:58 PM mhaze, >But he then, in his advocacy, goes on to assert that the human element ought to.....
» 6/05/2021 6:35:07 PM Cumberland, > So saying it would be better if we were all dead is not donwgrading human.....
» 5/05/2021 10:38:03 AM Rather than taking David Attenborough's comments out of context and libellously attributin.....
» 30/04/2021 11:14:10 AM individual, Building the whole thing as a bridge does not equate to not building bridges!.....
» 28/04/2021 2:47:31 PM Hasbeen, Why do you assume they'd move to a suburb near you rather than one over 50km away.....
» 26/04/2021 2:21:09 AM Bren, >Would Aidan subscribe to a share float to build the $6.3 billion Canberra to Ede.....
» 24/04/2021 9:43:17 PM individual, I do think future, hence my debunking of a couple of Brendan's more obvious mi.....
» 24/04/2021 7:12:39 PM Is Mise, That would depend on the assumptions those studies used. Most of Australia's rail.....
» 23/04/2021 12:07:38 PM This is not the first time an incompetent economist has demonstrated an ignorance of infra.....
» 20/04/2021 1:56:08 PM Mr 0, We're not heading for a war with China. At most there will be economic sanctions. An.....
» 20/04/2021 1:29:43 PM Shadow, Unless the ABC shamefully capitulates (like it did in the Chris Kenny case where i.....
» 19/04/2021 9:37:34 AM The PM's in trouble politically and becoming a republic is well known as a distraction iss.....
» 15/04/2021 12:51:42 PM ScoMo seems to be out o this depth. What do you reckon the odds are of him going the same .....
» 13/04/2021 1:02:55 PM Habeen, >If you don't like multinationals doing the mining & extracting the oil & gas,......
» 9/04/2021 5:14:35 PM ttbn, Why do you see everything in terms of left v right? Surely this is a libertarian v a.....
» 9/04/2021 11:58:09 AM I admit I haven't followed the issue very closely, but AIUI there is one huge difference b.....
» 9/04/2021 12:41:56 AM Shadow, The point is it would not be exclusive to imports; it would equally apply to their.....
» 8/04/2021 11:46:22 AM Galen, Why do you stand by your mistakes instead of standing corrected? _________________.....
» 6/04/2021 3:15:08 PM This article's just empty rhetoric! Supporting and encouraging change sounds great, but th.....
» 3/04/2021 1:19:54 AM plantagenet, 1. Do you think that everything that doesn't directly impact Australia should.....
» 31/03/2021 12:36:31 AM ttbn, Regarding Australia's relationship with booze, I think we're far more similar to Swe.....
» 30/03/2021 10:49:06 AM ttbn, Do you really not get it? Foxy's home internet connection's down, but her iPad has a.....
» 29/03/2021 10:22:43 PM Bazz, Nuclear certainly won't be the only practical method of producing electricity on a l.....
» 29/03/2021 9:53:52 PM Mr 0, Much as I'd like to see him go, especially if it sends the government into minority,.....
» 29/03/2021 9:47:38 PM Foxy, >My. Internet. Is. Down. Hence. My. Use of the. iPad. Oh. I thought. You were. Ju.....
» 29/03/2021 4:46:27 PM Bazz, A very obvious flaw in your reasoning is that electricity demand in Eastern Australi.....
» 29/03/2021 4:19:48 PM As someone who probably will still be around in 2050, I consider both this and the Vaclav .....
» 29/03/2021 10:44:13 AM Shadow, It would be idiotic for Australia to imose retaliatory tariffs. Why should Aussies.....
» 25/03/2021 1:39:01 AM Get real yourself, Hasbeen! >I just get through showing you we can't possibly afford t.....
» 23/03/2021 1:43:58 PM Yes it's heartless. But at least there's a logically sound reason behind it, unlike certai.....
» 23/03/2021 10:49:20 AM Hasbeen, If these "recent papers" really exist, can you provide a link to them? .....
» 23/03/2021 2:19:42 AM mhaze, >" He never claimed the dams would never fill again" >That's true. .....
» 23/03/2021 2:18:31 AM Hasbeen, >What is now needed is a class action against Flannery for damages by all who .....
» 21/03/2021 12:48:27 AM The REAL overall lesson from this is that AGW deniers are vicious liars, trying to discred.....
» 18/03/2021 8:58:43 AM How low must interest rates go before you think that taking on more debt is a more sensibl.....
» 18/03/2021 12:14:27 AM Armchair, >You know anyone could easily have easily bought 10k worth in this environmen.....
» 17/03/2021 10:23:25 AM Armchair, Because companies can issue and buy back shares, the share market can be thought.....
» 15/03/2021 5:38:35 PM >abor lacks a leader with the charisma of a Hawke, or the drive of a Whitlam and the ba.....
» 15/03/2021 5:27:09 PM Armchair, >And does Australia tell its kids at school "Buy crypto, you'll never ha.....
» 10/03/2021 2:02:54 PM Paul1405, You complain about Shadow's mistake but then make a very similar one yourself! &.....
» 6/03/2021 11:08:41 PM >BTW, the thermal mass of the ocean is a bit of a furphy. No it isn't. It's a major mod.....
» 6/03/2021 11:08:00 PM GrahamY, >You keep making the same mistake It's no mistake; merely poor comprehension o.....
» 4/03/2021 1:22:22 PM mhaze, >You pick out two years. I pick out 5 years. And I'm cherry-picking? Yes. The tw.....
» 4/03/2021 11:22:36 AM mhaze, Ah yes, the old deniers' trick of cherry picking evidence! 2016 was very very sligh.....
» 4/03/2021 11:11:14 AM Sorry, forgot to include the link for that last claim: http://www.sciencedaily.com/release.....
» 4/03/2021 10:49:05 AM GrahamY, Your claim that I'm wrong is due to a lack of comprehension on your part, as I ac.....
» 4/03/2021 9:11:58 AM Josephus, >Last year we were debating those that claim the Earth is getting hotter; Why.....
» 4/03/2021 2:44:14 AM Charles Hemmings (continued) >There are other greenhouse gases, like methane, but the i.....
» 4/03/2021 2:42:57 AM Charles Hemmings, >Although caution is recommended, we should not panic about climate c.....
» 3/03/2021 10:07:08 AM ttbn, > There is no point to a planet without human beings; There'd be a lot less poin.....
» 2/03/2021 12:57:31 PM Hasbeen, >...it is impossible to fix a problem that doesn't exist You were recommending.....
» 2/03/2021 9:17:13 AM I notice you didn't say where you sourced that information from, but I can tell the source.....
» 1/03/2021 4:49:17 PM individual, There is of course some human involvement; were there not, it probably wouldn'.....
» 28/02/2021 10:44:46 PM individual, Your delusional answer proves my point! Environmental degradation is the prob.....
» 28/02/2021 2:55:50 PM Individual, No, I haven't answered my own question. Once the planet is stuffed then a lowe.....
» 27/02/2021 11:18:34 PM Individual, Then how about providing some counterexamples? Exactly what benefits, other th.....
» 27/02/2021 5:05:35 PM individual, Your claim is absurd. If our generation stuffs the planet sufficiently to redu.....
» 26/02/2021 6:04:34 PM Chris Lewis, Actually I see many problems ahead; just none caused by debt. Future generati.....
» 26/02/2021 12:40:05 PM Chris Lewis, >of course Australia avoids large recessions, twice now by spending billio.....
» 26/02/2021 12:15:53 AM Chris Lewis, Such an agreement would not undermine the capitalist system at all - firstly .....
» 25/02/2021 9:14:41 AM Chris Lewis, What do you imagine those long term consequences are, and why?.....
» 24/02/2021 9:07:59 PM plantagenet, I never said you needed to buy it. But you seemed intent to shill it. BTW di.....
» 24/02/2021 4:58:24 PM plantagenet, Have you read the entire book? What do you think of the criticism I made furt.....
» 24/02/2021 1:32:40 PM OF COURSE private sector debt is a burden. But that debt exists for a reason: to fund priv.....
» 19/02/2021 4:55:35 PM Am I a letter? No, I don't even own anything that anyone would want to hire!.....
» 16/02/2021 1:14:06 PM Shadow, >In the vast majority of cases privatising businesses that are not public goods.....
» 15/02/2021 11:16:36 AM Shadow, Of course I agree. But it is small government ideology that threatens competence......
» 14/02/2021 4:27:05 PM Shadow, I'm glad you now concur with my point that it's capable government, not small gove.....
» 11/02/2021 8:04:59 PM >89% of kids report that they have been affected by the catastrophic reporting of clima.....
» 5/02/2021 10:53:33 AM >Armistice Demarcation Lines are not borders. I can tell you've never been to Korea!.....
» 5/02/2021 10:50:13 AM >While it might be legitimate to tax different kinds of companies at different rates an.....
» 4/02/2021 12:37:19 PM Kangaroos are too charismatic for me to eat, but I fully support the right of others to do.....
» 4/02/2021 10:17:00 AM Guy Hallowes, There is no need to compensate mines and power stations closing down. The ev.....
» 3/02/2021 10:43:21 AM Steele, >Sin "an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law.&.....
» 2/02/2021 12:31:07 PM LEGO, A lot of the things you see as racist are nothing of the sort. Mexico and Honduras a.....
» 2/02/2021 9:42:57 AM ttbn, Really? I'd've thought if you asked people what race they associated with crackers, .....
» 2/02/2021 9:08:53 AM LEGO, Racism is necessarily terrible, as it always leads to injustice. And it is always il.....
» 2/02/2021 8:46:15 AM It's one thing to cease honouring historical figures because of racist actions. But surely.....
» 1/02/2021 9:42:57 AM Pete S, Your understanding is wrong. Although it is true that cooler water can hold more C.....
» 31/01/2021 11:56:21 PM Yuyutsu, I think you're misattributing the source of the "spiralling pressure of comp.....
» 31/01/2021 8:55:05 PM Yuyutsu, Nor was I......
» 31/01/2021 2:11:28 PM ttbn, That proves my point! ___________________________ Mr 0, Still 0/3 _______________.....
» 31/01/2021 11:05:21 AM ttbn (continued) >You marked yourself as an idiot long ago when you started talking abo.....
» 31/01/2021 7:26:59 AM Yuyutsu, I suggest you get yourself tested for lead poisoning! War with China would threat.....
» 31/01/2021 1:18:18 AM ttbn, >Anybody smarter than you (just about everyone) Certainly not on this board! &g.....
» 30/01/2021 1:35:51 AM Mr 0, >I don't understand why you and others refuse to acknowledge that Australia is no.....
» 29/01/2021 8:41:29 AM ttbn, Seriously? You're not reading this article because Tony Abbott's nickname is out of .....
» 28/01/2021 8:57:27 PM David Pellowe, "Beyond extraordinarily ignorant, it's immensely offensive that the ph.....
» 28/01/2021 11:17:52 AM ttbn, If you've read the report rather than just regurgitated the press release, why didn'.....
» 28/01/2021 2:33:55 AM Sorry, just realised the mistake in what I typed. It should have been: "Saying everyt.....
» 27/01/2021 3:49:54 PM Armchair (continued) At least you acknowledge the possibility that it could be society's .....
» 27/01/2021 3:42:19 PM Armchair, \>No, I'm railing against a policy that will see dysfunctional kids under 13 .....
» 26/01/2021 2:49:43 AM ttbn, >How China gets a mention in a post about the AUSTRALIAN Broadcasting Corporation.....
» 24/01/2021 10:39:02 AM Lockdowns do work. That was proved first by New Zealand and then by Australia. But they d.....
» 24/01/2021 12:39:14 AM Armchair (continued) >When one party in a 2 party system represents immigrants; I'm n.....
» 24/01/2021 12:37:56 AM Armchair, >First off, we give too many kids above the age of 10 a virtual free pass alr.....
» 22/01/2021 10:49:11 AM Armchair, You're the sick one. Those 30+ countries are right - Australia does have a very .....
» 20/01/2021 10:13:48 PM individual, There are many people who act as a hurdle to real justice, but they don't seem.....
» 20/01/2021 1:28:39 PM (continued) >Surely there's a compromise with the Conservative ideal that elected legis.....
» 20/01/2021 1:26:37 PM (continued) >It would be just dreamy if there was a way to end coal mineral mining wit.....
» 20/01/2021 1:24:58 PM As someone who ttbn regards as "dogmatic hard left" there is much in this articl.....
» 20/01/2021 9:19:55 AM Armchair, What do you think of those who support a rules based system no matter which coun.....
» 19/01/2021 12:23:45 PM mox, I have seen the allegations of cheating that some "alternative" media have .....
» 19/01/2021 10:11:56 AM *Yawn* This wasn't when the SCOTUS was needed most. And you've shown no evidence that the .....
» 17/01/2021 10:48:19 PM I found the document at http://ipa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IPA-Report-Humanities.....
» 17/01/2021 8:00:20 AM Third world countries are the ones that don't look after their people, and dismiss them as.....
» 16/01/2021 10:55:21 AM Is Mise, Your question is highly loaded with conjecture. What makes you think he's an Anti.....
» 14/01/2021 6:02:21 PM Mr 0, >None of us here think it is coming out of Soot Morrison's pocket. Correct. ScoMo.....
» 14/01/2021 1:10:28 PM Funding it from general revenue is more equitable and shouldn't adversely affect public co.....
» 12/01/2021 10:40:55 PM Is Mise, Paul is NEVER funny. His attempts at humour are at best tiresome. So firstly, pl.....
» 12/01/2021 10:02:12 PM ttbn, > Mozilla has also joined the enemies of free speech. No it hasn't. >They wil.....
» 12/01/2021 9:42:23 PM Nobody's seriously proposing we accept China as Big Brother. Perhaps a better question is.....
» 10/01/2021 1:44:10 PM individual, >If there ever was an inciter of hatred, it's Pelosi ! What has she ever do.....
» 10/01/2021 10:57:42 AM I consider that very unlikely for one very simple reason: it's extremely rare for deadly d.....
» 10/01/2021 1:08:32 AM David Singer, Firstly, are you seriously claiming the people would have acted differently .....
» 8/01/2021 10:28:07 AM JBowyer, So the names of all three were given, yet you've supplied only one name and admit.....
» 8/01/2021 9:49:50 AM Josephus, If you ignore your critics, you'll fail to realise the absurdity of your own pos.....
» 8/01/2021 2:04:18 AM JBowyer, > The names of the three miscreants was given and no MSM did any digging Real.....
» 8/01/2021 1:59:09 AM ttbn, Are you sure it was police? I understood the shooter to be a National Guard soldier......
» 7/01/2021 9:13:33 PM Josephus, > I recognize you anti Republicans support the BLM and Antifa riots burnings .....
» 7/01/2021 1:12:53 PM David, Firstly, have you actually read the election laws of those states yet? As I pointed.....
» 5/01/2021 9:54:28 AM Foxy, You misunderstood my post. I know Trump and Biden have that in common, and indeed I .....
» 5/01/2021 9:33:47 AM Yuyutsu, > That China is our enemy is not my choice, but a matter of fact, Wrong. Even.....
» 4/01/2021 3:40:30 PM Yuyutsu, There are many people who want Australia and China to treat each other as enemies.....
» 4/01/2021 1:10:08 PM Foxy, Could it be concussion? > It is a well known fact that the former US President d.....
» 4/01/2021 1:02:32 PM shadow, Greta is not retarded, and has far more scientific credibility than you ever had o.....
» 4/01/2021 12:58:58 AM plantagenet, Where did you get the absurd notion that Steele (or anyone at all) wants the .....
» 31/12/2020 12:27:47 PM Weird article! You say the inaction could trigger appointment of special counsel, but you .....
» 30/12/2020 11:52:03 AM Mr 0, I never claimed I did. I may not have seen it, let alone deemed it worth responding .....
» 30/12/2020 10:08:59 AM Mr 0, > said this five years ago and everyone on the The Forum told me I > was stupi.....
» 29/12/2020 1:28:17 PM ttbn, If, as you say, "it is the the hugely wealthy technocrats and big business atte.....
» 28/12/2020 3:42:28 PM >What more could you ask for? You to stop posting your unfunny jokes?.....
» 28/12/2020 2:16:05 PM Joe, >But clearly, Sweden has come out on top economically WTF do you mean? All the ind.....
» 26/12/2020 5:59:34 PM Shadow, It's good that this is finally sorted. However whether the deal is a good one depe.....
» 26/12/2020 9:50:54 AM mox, Donald Trump himself is the one who famously dismissed the verified truth as "fa.....
» 24/12/2020 5:15:33 PM No, Mr 0, I don't see that as a racist attack against the Chinese. What I see as racist is.....
» 24/12/2020 11:02:49 AM mox, Yes, the mainstream media sometimes gets it wrong, but at least they try. Whereas the.....
» 24/12/2020 12:22:49 AM Mr 0, >And keep in mind that you belong to the pro-China camp. It's assumptions like t.....
» 23/12/2020 9:30:50 AM David, >The State Legislature directed nothing. Unless you're making the extraordinary .....
» 23/12/2020 9:01:18 AM Mr 0, I'd much rather have Chinese people here than racist scumbags like you!.....
» 21/12/2020 12:22:00 PM David, You're still making the mistake of assuming this is all about the meaning of the co.....
» 18/12/2020 8:38:40 PM Mr 0, Energy Australa's parent company is from Hong Kong,not mainland China. And discrimin.....
» 18/12/2020 7:37:49 PM JBowyer, If you pay peanuts, you will get monkeys. And if you pay peanuts in Australia, yo.....
» 18/12/2020 2:04:06 AM david singer, >No "legal technicality" involved. Exactly! The Supreme court'.....
» 16/12/2020 5:21:21 PM VK3AUU, No, the best that can be said about him is that he's a much much much much much be.....
» 16/12/2020 5:08:42 PM jamo, All the evidence shows Trump LOST in a landslide. Far from being a silly excuse, no.....
» 16/12/2020 9:46:48 AM Hypotheticaly, even if interpretation of Texas and Ohio were correct, it would have been a.....
» 15/12/2020 10:48:37 AM On the subject of common sense, the Electoral College has confirmed that Biden has won the.....
» 14/12/2020 10:19:15 AM Mr 0, I think I'm right. But I know you're wrong. You're obsessing over non existent threa.....
» 14/12/2020 9:59:04 AM Mr 0, >China will invade Australia FULL STOP if Australia refuses to kowtow to it. The .....
» 12/12/2020 11:03:03 AM CHERFUL, >Pres Trump got 11 million votes more than he won by in 2016. Plus he got 3 mi.....
» 11/12/2020 2:09:15 PM Josephus, If you have such a high IQ then why are you failing to use it? >The Democrat.....
» 9/12/2020 3:55:13 PM Mr 0, Of course I'd heard of sarcasm. Indeed I assumed you were being sarcastic and implyi.....
» 9/12/2020 10:05:47 AM Jamo, From http://www.newsweek.com/georgia-gop-senators-back-texas-ags-lawsuit-overturn-th.....
» 9/12/2020 9:49:19 AM Mr 0, Huh? When exactly was it attempted on Hitler? And isn't loss of face far more damagi.....
» 8/12/2020 3:22:03 PM Armchair, A better solution IMO would be biodegradable plastic straws. __________________.....
» 7/12/2020 8:47:43 PM The anti Chinese sentiment here is quite amusing, yet that issue is very serious. China is.....
» 29/11/2020 12:46:35 AM Josephus, There's a very good reason why the courts did not test those allegations: the Re.....
» 27/11/2020 2:06:49 PM >I have remembered the reason for the second SA poll. The original one was too close to.....
» 27/11/2020 10:12:25 AM ttbn, >Condemned via allegation. Multiple allegations, many from the soldiers themselve.....
» 26/11/2020 4:15:01 PM Sorry, typo! I should've said: ... if you're too stubborn to change them IF the basis of t.....
» 26/11/2020 1:40:43 PM ttbn, Firstly I have not insulted you on this thread. Secondly, you have misspelled my nam.....
» 26/11/2020 10:25:41 AM ttbn, You seriously think my not wanting to waste time responding to your ambiguous questi.....
» 26/11/2020 2:46:45 AM r66ald, As you can see, this board isn't the vest place to ask - it's full of delusional d.....
» 25/11/2020 4:12:23 PM No way! This isn't like the 2000 election (or even the 2004 election) where the result was.....
» 25/11/2020 12:25:28 AM ttbn, Seeing as I didn't see your response until Tuesday, I may indeed disagree that it's .....
» 23/11/2020 2:55:15 PM ttbn, I couldn't disagree more! It's a free country, so there's really no reason why ex po.....
» 21/11/2020 10:50:41 AM Very much hope, actually. Our government is a sovereign currency issuer. It only borrows i.....
» 20/11/2020 3:03:20 PM Hasbeen, What is the source for your quote?.....
» 20/11/2020 2:54:58 PM The best way to end the lockdowns is to eliminate COVID19 from Australia. SA really stuffe.....
» 20/11/2020 2:41:22 PM Hasbeen, What's really disgusting is your failure to distinguish between the good soldiers.....
» 20/11/2020 11:50:46 AM Not quite. Though new straight petrol cars will be banned there after 2030, hybrids will s.....
» 20/11/2020 10:29:58 AM "The best - and safest - way to have stopped these emerging court battles was by enco.....
» 20/11/2020 10:21:16 AM ttbn, Even in war, under is murder and manslaughter is manslaughter. The big difference is.....
» 19/11/2020 2:49:55 PM >I was unaware OLO had so many Selective pacifists. What's a Selective pacifist? Someo.....
» 19/11/2020 1:30:40 AM Plantagenet, Again you're failing to properly look to the future. You've failed to realise.....
» 18/11/2020 5:10:19 PM Pete, your mind is stuck in the past, not the future. Although we don't know what China wi.....
» 18/11/2020 2:43:07 PM plantagenet, Protection from what, exactly? Nobody's trying, planning or even desiring to.....
» 18/11/2020 12:13:59 PM Oh dear... another idiot spruiking a book that's already freely downloadable but gives its.....
» 17/11/2020 3:35:38 PM No, ttbn, it's four years sense we came aware of the damage big tech could do. But as yet .....
» 16/11/2020 10:54:44 PM diver, Do you think they should treat truth and lies the same? If not, what do you think t.....
» 16/11/2020 10:47:43 PM If he has it again, he'll almost certainly be asymptomatic and will get over it quickly. .....
» 16/11/2020 6:14:43 PM Aside from his failure to reply to the email I sent him last year, the most memorable thin.....
» 14/11/2020 10:32:47 PM ttbn, Is there anything at all that Joe Biden's done which fits that archaic definition of.....
» 11/11/2020 4:11:39 PM > The yoyo swings from Trump to Biden, Biden to Trump on a daily basis Huh? It yoyoed a.....
» 8/11/2020 9:25:04 PM NathanJ, > "waste correctly disposed of...." There is no such thing. What a r.....
» 8/11/2020 4:23:29 PM I see Alison Jane has resumed trolling. For the benefit of anyone who might be inclined t.....
» 8/11/2020 1:03:15 PM I see other posters have failed to properly address Charles Essery's main points: > In.....
» 7/11/2020 11:49:46 PM NathanJ, > What is frustrating is people who keep denying waste in Australia is a probl.....
» 7/11/2020 10:02:15 AM NathanJ, > I don't know where your figures came from, They're not my figures, they're Y.....
» 5/11/2020 11:11:33 AM 'Tis a bit disappointing that NathanJ didn't answer my questions - but I followed his link.....
» 4/11/2020 7:40:12 PM Yuyutsu, >Or causing an actual injury! No, that's battery! But they often go together. .....
» 4/11/2020 4:15:47 PM What does the 67 million tonnes per year figure include? What doe it exclude? Why do you c.....
» 4/11/2020 11:09:38 AM Yuyutsu, >Sowing unsolicited desires in the minds of others is an assault. No it isn't......
» 4/11/2020 2:27:36 AM The most important thing to know about subliminal advertising is: it doesn't work very wel.....
» 2/11/2020 2:07:24 PM Alan B., It would be nice if Bi 213 were a miracle cancer cure, but it's not. It's merely .....
» 29/10/2020 10:03:45 AM Alan B., The border hadn't "existed for decades". It was first negotiated in 198.....
» 27/10/2020 12:06:14 PM Unfortunately I don't remember the details, as it was more than a decade ago. But I did he.....
» 27/10/2020 11:48:49 AM Joe, You are correct that, in general, a warming climate will bring more rain. However the.....
» 26/10/2020 7:31:45 PM He said regarding the rain "it may not come". The implied timeframe was until af.....
» 26/10/2020 7:23:44 PM Why the appeal to Europe. Despite its many faults, Turkey is still a democracy. By far the.....
» 26/10/2020 5:29:17 PM Mr 0, Transport engineering. ____________________________________________________________.....
» 26/10/2020 9:33:29 AM Mr 0, >'engineer' is a broad term that applies to a vast cross section of vocational ty.....
» 24/10/2020 10:06:40 PM Mr 0, The fact that you think engineers are tradesmen makes me suspect you are lying about.....
» 24/10/2020 1:19:35 AM Mr 0, What you're that ignorant about what engineers do, this really doesn't surprise me. .....
» 23/10/2020 5:57:09 PM Bazz, >Aiden, a bigger turbine needs a bigger push, otherwise there is no point to havi.....
» 23/10/2020 1:30:29 PM Bazz, Your assumption of a bigger turbine was due to poor comprehension on your part. I'm .....
» 23/10/2020 9:24:55 AM Bazz, >It would increase the possible maximum o/p . Correct. However that would only ma.....
» 23/10/2020 9:19:50 AM Hasbeen, Dispachability and reliability are two very different things, and the renewables .....
» 23/10/2020 1:42:34 AM Bazz, Something that might help you comprehend things: In some cases it would be possible .....
» 22/10/2020 12:30:32 PM Is anyone else here having trouble understanding what I'm saying? Or is it just Bazz?.....
» 22/10/2020 10:35:06 AM Bazz, > I have always thought the objective was to provide electricity for the country,.....
» 22/10/2020 12:35:41 AM Bazz, > Therefore two more turbines have to be installed to get the design output. FAL.....
» 21/10/2020 9:10:15 PM Bazz, >So if an energy system has to deliver the peak load of that equipment, What exac.....
» 21/10/2020 11:17:45 AM Bazz, Sorry, I'd thought you understood what capacity factor meant! Capacity factor is ju.....
» 21/10/2020 2:21:59 AM Hasbeen, Understanding the effects of the laws of physics does not make anyone dumb, howev.....
» 20/10/2020 7:47:13 PM Mr 0, Holocaust deniers are relatively easy to deal with; the Nazis kept meticulous record.....
» 20/10/2020 1:46:03 PM ttbn, > The "truth" about global warming is that the people who took away our.....
» 20/10/2020 9:55:48 AM M 0, >I refuse to engage in discourse with people who have nothing to offer to a discus.....
» 20/10/2020 7:40:04 AM Mr 0, Yes you saw somewhere. Now it could be that what you saw was an outright lie, but I .....
» 20/10/2020 2:19:06 AM Mr 0, > I saw somewhere the other day that China is now putting more carbon > into t.....
» 15/10/2020 1:50:14 PM Alison Jane, AIUI stands for As I Understand It. The abbreviation has been on common use o.....
» 15/10/2020 10:50:54 AM Alison Jane, AIUI the way the debates work, both participants are provided with the questi.....
» 15/10/2020 10:48:09 AM The process of money creation creates an equal amount of debt. This can happen in the priv.....
» 14/10/2020 6:07:58 PM mhaze, What makes you think NZ's lockdown hasn't saved lives?.....
» 13/10/2020 9:38:32 AM We've already learned to live with the virus, and it adversely impacts our quality of life.....
» 11/10/2020 10:01:58 PM JF Aus, > 1.5 million people die annually with TB, where are the masks for that? Not ne.....
» 11/10/2020 6:23:09 PM individual, It sounds like you want it to be a slippery slope! Imposing solutions on youn.....
» 11/10/2020 3:26:41 PM Don't you get it? A National Service Scheme is something that the younger generations will.....
» 9/10/2020 5:10:07 PM Josephus, >Her Energy proposal will create massive unemployment in the fossil fuel indu.....
» 9/10/2020 11:21:35 AM > In the eyes of the Chinese people, the most important thing is that he is the > fi.....
» 8/10/2020 12:55:44 PM The results of modelling depend heavily on the assumptions made, and this is just another .....
» 2/10/2020 2:00:30 PM Ordan Andreevski looks to me like a really stupid whinger! Finally an agreement that prev.....
» 2/10/2020 1:39:54 PM Mr 0, Why would I want to pull the wool over the eyes of the blind? This board is not a sc.....
» 2/10/2020 2:48:33 AM Mr 0, For a start, a pseudo-intellectual would always claim to be an intellectual! Your d.....
» 1/10/2020 12:18:41 PM The report explains (on page 13) why they decided it should reach the conclusion it did. N.....
» 1/10/2020 12:01:17 PM Mr 0, Why would that be? Does it alter the point you were trying to make? If so, how? FWI.....
» 29/09/2020 6:21:07 PM Mr 0, Your rants are so incoherent I can't tell whether you're being sarcastic. What point.....
» 29/09/2020 12:50:11 PM > Of course, quarantine should be only for the sick and never for the healthy. WHAT AN .....
» 25/09/2020 11:27:18 AM > In Blackstone’s 1768 Commentaries on the Laws of England, Henry St. George Tucker wro.....
» 22/09/2020 3:04:23 PM Foxy, Yes, I watched QandA, and I heard that claim about the Electoral College system. But.....
» 22/09/2020 11:10:39 AM Chris, being in a democracy does not change the fact that there is such a thing as uneduca.....
» 18/09/2020 11:50:31 AM I find ttbn has beaten me to the obvious four word response, and it's very rare that we ev.....
» 17/09/2020 10:43:07 PM Josephus, that's the most idiotic conspiracy theory yet! It's likely whoever appears to l.....
» 16/09/2020 11:45:27 AM One room cell?!?!? Doesn't it also include a bathroom?.....
» 15/09/2020 2:40:21 PM Josephus, What you posted was more delusional spin than policy, and attributing it to an a.....
» 15/09/2020 2:36:42 AM Josephus, The Democratic Party is not "far left" at all - by the standards of mo.....
» 13/09/2020 1:56:26 AM Bazz, >Aiden, you MUST have seen the reports on the enquiry into the bushfires. >The.....
» 12/09/2020 5:17:03 PM Bazz, >Now the science has told us that global warming had nothing to do with the bushf.....
» 12/09/2020 2:34:57 AM The minimum wage should be regarded not as a form of charity, but as the minimum value of .....
» 11/09/2020 1:19:24 AM david f, The koalas aren't that endangered. There are some threats to their habitat, parti.....
» 10/09/2020 10:43:56 AM Bazz, NO IT ISN'T, STUPID! http://skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warm.....
» 9/09/2020 1:04:22 PM AlanB., > You want it back! So does every other fair dinkum Aussie. I'm not sure about .....
» 8/09/2020 12:56:18 PM ttbn, what makes you think Joe Biden's a fool?.....
» 3/09/2020 12:10:35 PM We're in uncharted territory, so inventing a roadmap won't be much help. The situation is .....
» 1/09/2020 1:34:00 PM Joe, >A person who is an undischarged bankrupt shouldn't be allowed to stand for office.....
» 1/09/2020 1:24:05 PM mhaze, > Irrelevant. No, very relevant when that's what's being complained about. >.....
» 1/09/2020 10:37:10 AM Josephus, Do you have any evidence that Antifa believe the only way to get change as they .....
» 30/08/2020 6:18:27 PM I think it's generally the case that the more easily preventable those deaths are, the mor.....
» 29/08/2020 11:05:06 AM Law and order issues certainly do separate Republicans from Democrats, but if you ignore t.....
» 27/08/2020 9:55:31 AM > Sleeping Giants are fascists using brownshirt tactics, Really? Who are they threateni.....
» 25/08/2020 12:54:16 AM plantagenet, I did not call Hasbeen a lunatic. Saying someone has lunatic fringe views doe.....
» 24/08/2020 4:46:47 PM Valley Guy, No such thing as LNP in SA. The Nats are relatively insignificant, and have pr.....
» 24/08/2020 4:14:04 PM Taswegian, I might note trivia but I probably won't. Do you think the age of the Moomba-Ad.....
» 23/08/2020 1:05:12 PM Taswegian, If you're originally from SA, surely you know that SA has for decades been much.....
» 21/08/2020 4:58:35 PM I had another look at this thread and noticed something that I failed to before: the sheer.....
» 21/08/2020 1:46:41 PM The economy s in a mess everywhere, yet you somehow see that as game over for SA? NO! It's.....
» 20/08/2020 11:26:00 AM Shadow, it's the Libs who are opposing a Federal ICAC. And considering the Abbott governme.....
» 17/08/2020 12:18:03 AM > Why, why, oh ffs why, can somebody not live their dreams and leave Oz > just becau.....
» 17/08/2020 12:11:39 AM Luciferase, I've not seen Lalaland yet, and nor have I been to LA. But I do know that thos.....
» 16/08/2020 11:03:20 PM Hasbeen, if you're being blocked by Firefox, the problem is obviously the settings on Fire.....
» 13/08/2020 2:30:38 AM Luciferase, Of course. So the most sensible response is to implement mass testing. Repeate.....
» 12/08/2020 6:07:29 PM progressive pat, Is that an attempt at irony? 'Cos if your sleep really depends on such an.....
» 12/08/2020 5:56:02 PM Luciferase, A lie will never be a fact, no matter how often it is repeated. The original .....
» 11/08/2020 10:42:50 AM > However, the COVID-19 is only temporarily avoidable. The Kiwis say otherwise. > .....
» 8/08/2020 11:00:45 AM runner (continued), > racist claims for stopping flights from Wuhan when China virus st.....
» 8/08/2020 10:53:05 AM runner, >yeah Aiden Trump has certainly been caught out lying but only >a fraction o.....
» 8/08/2020 10:42:58 AM mhaze, >Nero was falsely accused of fiddling while Rome burned Violins hadn't been inve.....
» 8/08/2020 2:12:02 AM Steve S, It seems obvious to me that a much better solution would be to raise the repaymen.....
» 29/07/2020 3:25:03 PM individual, >Politicians merely react to the consumer's ability to pay ! That claim is.....
» 29/07/2020 10:47:08 AM ttbn, The Hooverites controlling Congress were the main reason why Obama was such an ineff.....
» 27/07/2020 5:44:21 PM Foxy, There is just one God. Other gods are merely powerless figments of human imagination.....
» 27/07/2020 11:31:35 AM Paul1405, Belief without evidence is what's known as blind faith. As a Christian, that is .....
» 24/07/2020 1:00:26 PM Shadow, Did you avoid watching the ABC during the entire Gillard era? > the 8000 child.....
» 24/07/2020 11:01:03 AM > According to progressives, the diagnosis of all societal inequality and injustice is .....
» 23/07/2020 6:35:23 PM Shadow, Isn't that just the result of Labor and the Greens nothing in power? ISTR the ABC .....
» 22/07/2020 2:01:55 PM Shadow, Holding left of centre political views is not evidence of bias. It may just mean t.....
» 21/07/2020 11:57:46 AM Paul, you don't need royal privilege to not pop over to America......
» 21/07/2020 11:53:42 AM Individual, There are usually plenty of grubs and slimy creatures in lakes as well. _____.....
» 19/07/2020 11:27:51 PM This thread is misnamed. BLM is a reaction against a very real problem. It has nothing to .....
» 17/07/2020 11:03:06 AM ALTRAV, No matter how easy it s to respect her, Her Majesty is unequivocally not a bloke, .....
» 15/07/2020 7:08:11 PM individual, Wasn't the unemployment rate higher under Fraser? ___________________________.....
» 15/07/2020 3:04:56 PM Hasbeen, Why do you regard the conspiracy theory as Labor's? ____________________________.....
» 13/07/2020 5:32:05 PM A dynasty is hereditary. Therefore the CCP is not a dynasty. Nor will the CCP be in power .....
» 13/07/2020 4:06:42 PM Mr 0, Don't you get it? If Xi loses the confidence of the Chinese people, but relies on hi.....
» 13/07/2020 3:43:13 PM mhaze, > In fact the first Spitfire wasn't produced until June 1940, almost two years a.....
» 13/07/2020 12:55:55 AM Hasbeen, maybe you should try actually watching or listening to the ABC occasionally, rath.....
» 12/07/2020 7:28:04 PM Had the Abbott government cared more about Australia's future than short term budgetary ob.....
» 11/07/2020 12:03:34 PM mhaze, >Well yes [Malthus] obviously was wrong. Even the man himself accepted that late.....
» 9/07/2020 1:00:37 PM *yawn* Yet another example of someone so ill informed he doesn't understand that economic .....
» 6/07/2020 5:46:35 PM Koalas in SA aren't endangered. They've started moving into the Adelaide suburbs, much lik.....
» 30/06/2020 9:51:05 AM Shadow, It's not as if Australia would be going it alone: most of Europe has already set a.....
» 30/06/2020 2:10:10 AM Bazz, I was reerring to your post of Friday, 26 June 2020 10:26:51 PM As for your earlier.....
» 29/06/2020 12:50:52 PM Bazz, Multiples of numeric division? You're posting gibberish! Please write more clearly, .....
» 26/06/2020 7:28:20 PM ALTRAV, You seem to have a Trumpian delusion about what facts and truth are! Facts are al.....
» 26/06/2020 11:09:25 AM ALTRAV, although I'm not involved in the industry, I do keep up with its developments. You.....
» 26/06/2020 2:19:51 AM Foxy, > As for coal? Not sure about accidents, but at least not radioactive Like the di.....
» 23/06/2020 3:14:57 PM mhaze, >Trump only has a Bolton problem among those who choose to believe Bolton's fair.....
» 23/06/2020 3:11:44 PM o sung woo, I'm surprised to hear that coming from you! Isn't the war you fought in the on.....
» 23/06/2020 1:55:38 AM individual, Which German police officer? Said to whom?.....
» 22/06/2020 9:42:06 PM individual, Where did you get the idea that the rioters in Stuttgart were (or were claimin.....
» 22/06/2020 3:02:39 PM Is Mise, do you actually mean camber? Or do you mean cant?.....
» 22/06/2020 12:12:48 PM ALTRAV, Obviously a vaccine would be of great use if we had it (and I'm baffled as to why .....
» 21/06/2020 11:11:04 PM Joe, There are about a hundred strains of the common cold. But the mutation rate is very s.....
» 21/06/2020 11:13:56 AM Joe, the possibility of reinfection is very very remote. If you look at the more familiar .....
» 18/06/2020 6:04:42 PM *Yawn* Weren't people saying similar things about wind turbines a decade ago? Electric ve.....
» 18/06/2020 2:00:30 AM ALTRAV, I doubt I'm the only reader here who appreciates the irony of you calling that WA .....
» 17/06/2020 6:51:45 PM Bazz, I mentioned that at the time, I didn't understand how closely related the right to p.....
» 16/06/2020 3:46:21 PM > Protests are, by definition, risky. Your definition is wrong! They certainly can be .....
» 16/06/2020 2:00:59 PM nhaze, > had [Chamberlain] backed the freedom and independence of the Czechs, not only .....
» 8/06/2020 11:12:21 AM "These devils on our shoulder have been whispering in society's ear for decades that .....
» 5/06/2020 11:00:40 AM ttbn, By that logic, corporations would be just no good at anything, as their workers too .....
» 5/06/2020 10:37:46 AM No, Olever90, it doesn't strike me as improbable. In fact it strikes me as highly probable.....
» 4/06/2020 12:47:58 PM Interesting point on the ABC's Planet America yesterday: American cops have almost no form.....
» 2/06/2020 9:50:20 AM Dan, has it ever occurred to you that not all events in the USA are instigated by the poli.....
» 2/06/2020 2:17:35 AM Banjo, The biggest difference is that the USA has the rule of law, whereas the Chinese jud.....
» 1/06/2020 11:00:32 AM Josephus, > Those looting and torching businesses are being emotionally fuelled by Get .....
» 1/06/2020 10:52:17 AM ttbn, > White Americans do not behave in that way, as white people don't worldwide. Yet.....
» 31/05/2020 4:37:32 PM OzSpen, No, not personally - I don't even know his real identity; I only know runner throu.....
» 29/05/2020 11:50:36 AM runner, What is your source for that claim? FWIW I doubt the deplorables even watch CNN -.....
» 29/05/2020 10:41:47 AM Despite the rhetoric, it is one rule for everyone. The question is: did Cummings break it?.....
» 28/05/2020 3:54:25 PM I expect economics to kill this one off, for two reasons: firstly, gas prices are no longe.....
» 27/05/2020 2:11:22 PM Yes, Mr 0. If you want to see what happens when someone's theoretically a Christian but fa.....
» 27/05/2020 10:56:36 AM Paul1405, > no exemptions for the kids of the better off's, So you don't want it to be .....
» 27/05/2020 9:52:22 AM On the contrary, ttbn, they have an enormous amount in common. Socialists are motivated by.....
» 25/05/2020 5:21:15 PM Bazz, No, the 50% figure doesn't strike me as improbable. The evidence is overwhelming! Th.....
» 25/05/2020 11:43:04 AM Bazz, you are mindlessly attacking the idea rather than considering the timescale of it. I.....
» 25/05/2020 2:40:22 AM Bazz, I can't even tell what corner you're in! You seem to be attacking strawmen and ignor.....
» 24/05/2020 11:08:20 AM Bazz, It's not that nobody's game to talk about such a scenario; it's just that it's a ver.....
» 22/05/2020 6:37:36 PM Luciferase, >Intermittent renewables are just a front for Big Coal, Oil and Gas to carr.....
» 20/05/2020 1:51:51 AM Bazz, >The problem is sudden reductions or increases in output due to cloud >banks .....
» 19/05/2020 11:45:48 PM Experts are more likely to get things right than the general population, but are far from .....
» 11/05/2020 12:55:54 PM runner, > Lets not forget the advice from the globalist Which globalist? >and WHO w.....
» 8/05/2020 2:29:04 PM A stupid and misleading article - despite his credentials, it's clear the author doesn't u.....
» 6/05/2020 10:38:30 AM > Foreigners won't come if they have to go into quarantine on arrival, and > Austral.....
» 2/05/2020 11:33:42 AM ttbn, you miss my point. LOTS OF VIRUSES CAME FROM CHINA. So it is grammatically incorrect.....
» 2/05/2020 3:48:58 AM Hasbeen, SA did order some synchronous condensers for frequency control, but whether they'.....
» 1/05/2020 10:55:42 AM Armchair, It is indeed stupid and completely unwarranted. The problem is that the grid was.....
» 29/04/2020 1:38:10 PM individual, >I'm more for balanced salary/wages balance. Balanced with what? Or is &quo.....
» 29/04/2020 11:13:53 AM mhaze, these allegations were covered on the ABC's Planet America. http://iview.abc.net.au.....
» 27/04/2020 1:05:01 PM Alison Jane, Where are you getting your anti-ABC lies from? Is the delusion that they have.....
» 26/04/2020 3:27:43 PM individual, Sorry, "dot" should've been "to". I think that was an auto.....
» 26/04/2020 10:47:43 AM individual, I think most people think everyone else's claims are stranger than their own. .....
» 26/04/2020 3:43:39 AM individual, > We need to look at where funding is wasted rather than where it it spent......
» 24/04/2020 3:22:33 PM Bazz, I did not ask about lying to protect yourself. I asked about the claim you made, whi.....
» 24/04/2020 11:10:35 AM Shadow, >The left whinge answer to everything is to raise taxes. No it isn't. But beca.....
» 23/04/2020 10:59:45 PM individual, No I don't, and I certainly wouldn't want to. Those organisations are difficul.....
» 23/04/2020 10:50:53 PM Is Mise, >Members swear allegiance to the Queen, to the person, and if they >so swe.....
» 23/04/2020 6:44:43 PM individual, > You're challenging my mentality on that one. Good! > How should thing.....
» 23/04/2020 6:14:05 PM Bazz, >The Koran has a verse that allows to lie to unbelievers if it is to the advantag.....
» 23/04/2020 2:48:48 PM ttbn, Are you aware that replacing markets with central planning is now something most soc.....
» 23/04/2020 11:11:01 AM Is Mise, >Turnbull is a perjurer, 'nuff said. Any actual evidence of that? Or are you b.....
» 23/04/2020 10:44:30 AM individual, Trying to make us a user pays society is not the solution; it's the biggest ca.....
» 23/04/2020 10:37:40 AM What the government should do is forget about any notion of trying to eliminate the debt (.....
» 23/04/2020 1:23:58 AM individual, what makes you think the unions killed off Ansett? Ansett's big problem with u.....
» 22/04/2020 3:53:49 PM ...which ones?.....
» 22/04/2020 10:44:47 AM No, Bazz, this is not just a sectarian war. Though sectarianism drove external support, it.....
» 22/04/2020 10:35:04 AM ttbn, Car manufacturing was originally a high value activity, but gradually became a low v.....
» 21/04/2020 10:09:13 PM Steele, It wasn't the mining boom that pushed the Australian dollar that high; it was the .....
» 21/04/2020 9:59:17 PM Alan B., >Adian: Did I mention a particular strain? Genius. No you didn't. and that's t.....
» 21/04/2020 10:29:17 AM Alan B., You misunderstand the situation with the common cold. There are about a hundred d.....
» 21/04/2020 10:12:16 AM The paper is at http://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/50461/ and its only mention of CO2 is a state.....
» 21/04/2020 2:53:57 AM Steele, The Sydney-Melbourne air route is one of the world's busiest, but that doesn't aut.....
» 20/04/2020 8:00:24 PM Steele, AIUI Virgin Australia didn't pay a drop of tax on their revenue because their cost.....
» 20/04/2020 1:53:54 PM ttbn, isn't it better to start caring before any announcements are made?.....
» 17/04/2020 2:38:00 AM Alison, though I'm not a production engineer, I am an engineer - unlike you. OF COURSE I k.....
» 16/04/2020 10:01:43 PM Mr 0, That documentary I saw found good evidence to the contrary. See http://en.wikipedia......
» 16/04/2020 1:21:34 PM Alison Jane, 1. My opinions are my own. If the head of the WHO shares them then maybe you'.....
» 16/04/2020 10:49:46 AM Luciferase, >Testing will need to go beyond the symptomatic cases, so how long is your .....
» 16/04/2020 2:03:17 AM Mr 0, It turns out the Wright Brothers weren't even first. There was a documentary about i.....
» 15/04/2020 3:12:22 PM Luciferase, The original SARS outbreak was stopped not by heard immunity, but by quarantin.....
» 10/04/2020 10:18:27 AM runner, I'm glad you hold that view. But I' m puzzled as to how you reconcile it with your.....
» 8/04/2020 4:00:18 PM Bazz, I'm puzzled why you think such a renewable energy system is unaffordable now; to me .....
» 8/04/2020 3:48:47 PM Alison Jane, No matter how much flat earthers label their opponents as the RWC (round worl.....
» 7/04/2020 4:42:47 PM Mr 0, I've answered your question. If you think I've missed your point then feel free to e.....
» 7/04/2020 10:43:39 AM runner, >... another anti Christ anti people world Government will sieze power. You th.....
» 6/04/2020 4:25:10 PM JBowyer, I have no intention of being sarcastic, but flu vaccines are available and AIUI t.....
» 6/04/2020 3:43:28 PM JBowyer > This is our fourth major pandemic in 100 years 1918, 1957, 1968 and now this......
» 6/04/2020 3:38:05 PM Capitalism is so loosely defined that the question is unanswerable in any meaningful way. .....
» 6/04/2020 2:02:06 PM Faustino, Barro's work is based on false assumptions - the biggest of which is that the mo.....
» 2/04/2020 9:42:51 AM I apologise for my misformatting of the above response. The first paragraph should entirel.....
» 2/04/2020 9:39:45 AM Tony Makin, >John Maynard Keynes most famously advocated fiscal stimulus in the form of.....
» 31/03/2020 1:48:52 PM individual, It's mainly services and what we grow. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o.....
» 31/03/2020 9:26:39 AM individual and ttbn, The idea that Australia is uncompetitive is a myth. Before this crisi.....
» 30/03/2020 9:14:15 AM Mr 0, If you look at that Wikipedia article you linked to, you'll find the rate over the l.....
» 29/03/2020 3:32:50 PM Leo Lane, > Itwould be more appropriate to direct efforts and funds to prosecution of f.....
» 28/03/2020 1:24:29 PM Just to clarify: I wasn't threatening to sue. When I said "make it official" I m.....
» 28/03/2020 10:59:23 AM Alison Jane, Your accusation that I'm a misogynist is libellous. Consider this an unoffici.....
» 28/03/2020 10:20:33 AM Alison Jane, I must concede I failed to consider the possibility you were just trolling. T.....
» 28/03/2020 8:39:48 AM Mr 0, From your above comment, would I be correct in deducing you don't know much about hi.....
» 27/03/2020 6:01:59 PM ttbn, Perhaps you could just stop digging! The problem is so big that even removing all th.....
» 27/03/2020 10:36:43 AM runner, Hopefully Christians are seeking the living and loving God at this moment while th.....
» 27/03/2020 10:33:36 AM ttbn, Net zero means we don't put any more CO2 into the air than we take out. The effects .....
» 27/03/2020 10:16:09 AM ... • Some alleged predictions are fake. For example, Tim Flannery said the rain might no.....
» 27/03/2020 10:15:37 AM Taswegian, A good start would be to cut some of the red tape that's currently holding back.....
» 26/03/2020 12:42:50 PM Not open borders, runner, just approachable borders. Obviously there will have to be sever.....
» 26/03/2020 9:40:59 AM Taswegian, I thought the figure you supplied looked dodgy so I checked and it was. You mis.....
» 26/03/2020 9:33:41 AM runner, his method of stopping them included towing one boat out to sea where nobody on it.....
» 26/03/2020 9:00:22 AM The hotlink in the article is broken; someone misedited it, putting http before the https .....
» 25/03/2020 2:34:48 PM Alison Jane, Firstly, apologies for the autocorrect error on the second part of the triple.....
» 25/03/2020 1:31:40 AM 9) The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt iin order to influence and/or con.....
» 25/03/2020 1:30:42 AM ... 4) The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, .....
» 25/03/2020 1:29:01 AM Alison Jane, I see you're still hurling insults and false accusations, yet ignoring the qu.....
» 24/03/2020 2:17:03 AM Mr 0, As you visually identify most people you see as Chinese (whether or not they actuall.....
» 22/03/2020 1:15:25 AM ... I'm no fan of Thatcher (her misunderstanding of economics caused huge problems for Bri.....
» 22/03/2020 1:14:26 AM Alison Jane, I see you're avoiding my questions and doubling down on your insults and ad h.....
» 21/03/2020 2:19:13 AM Alison Jane, I don't get it - if you really have the credentials you say you have, why are.....
» 20/03/2020 1:51:25 PM mhaze, >Its true that the inflationary hit would be ephemeral and would ultimately pass.....
» 20/03/2020 1:28:59 AM Alison Jane, Though extra CO2 does have some enhancement effect on plant growth rates, my .....
» 19/03/2020 10:28:57 AM Wow, what a weird combination of idiotic claims and statements of the obvious! Plants are.....
» 18/03/2020 5:05:48 PM mhaze, > Self correcting via a declining (weakening) dollar. Which is inflationary. And.....
» 18/03/2020 2:39:36 PM runner, >Of course it would not be in the interest of the abc to run something much mor.....
» 18/03/2020 9:12:08 AM mhaze, >Did I say that? You implied it, both in your utter rejection of my position and.....
» 16/03/2020 4:57:58 PM runner, I think most people are smart enough to know that's not true. The number of peopl.....
» 15/03/2020 1:07:04 PM mhaze, You miss the point completely. No generation is under any obligation to pay off the.....
» 15/03/2020 12:24:57 PM Shadow, Repeating your assertion doesn't make it any truer, even if you word it more stron.....
» 15/03/2020 1:25:58 AM Paul1405. No, there's no difference at all. Swan also announced and tried to take credit f.....
» 13/03/2020 10:38:11 PM ttbn, You've only just read the claim that it was the Chinese government who saved Austral.....
» 13/03/2020 10:22:20 PM Hasbeen, you're leaving out a very important detail: the survey was only conducted in Brit.....
» 13/03/2020 9:51:32 AM (apologies to ttbn for my lack of attribution above).....
» 13/03/2020 9:49:48 AM >I once thought that Joyce was an honest, knockabout sort of bloke with the country's i.....
» 13/03/2020 2:00:18 AM Hasbeen, The insults you unthinkingly hurled at me failed to hide the fact that you had no.....
» 12/03/2020 8:55:34 AM Josephus, >To give every person on the planet food, housing, transport and comfort is n.....
» 11/03/2020 1:22:20 PM Hasbeen, There's no need to resort to "pretend make work" jobs - there's no shor.....
» 11/03/2020 1:00:08 PM individual, >You reckon the Opposition parties would be agreeable to lower Public Servi.....
» 11/03/2020 9:21:51 AM That a Liberal MP wants wages to be lower is hardly surprising! Regardless of our immigra.....
» 11/03/2020 9:07:01 AM Slater > Since the Carter Administration's disastrous decision to undermine the Shah of.....
» 10/03/2020 9:27:29 AM JBowyer >What made anyone think you could just keep borrowing money created out of thin.....
» 10/03/2020 9:16:36 AM Democracy for Iran must be an Iranian effort. Pressure on Iran by other countries is very .....
» 8/03/2020 4:04:20 PM >The youth are a volatile group who are swayed by personal considerations rather than p.....
» 7/03/2020 9:20:46 PM That's not yodelling, Hasbeen, it's the doppler effect. But I don't know why you shake you.....
» 7/03/2020 2:19:34 AM runner, >so Aiden no comment on Sarah's Hanson's mate who slapped his wife. Do you thin.....
» 6/03/2020 4:35:22 PM Shadow, She looks pretty fit to me. There's quite a difference between a slap and a beat.....
» 2/03/2020 12:57:43 AM ALTRAV, 1. I've been consistent and correct, whereas you've been proved wrong, so why shou.....
» 1/03/2020 1:28:58 AM Altrav, I think you may have missed many of my points, so this time I'm numbering them to .....
» 1/03/2020 12:35:41 AM Can someone who supports this law change please tell me: why should lawyers have a monopol.....
» 29/02/2020 1:24:28 AM Armchair, Counterpart was a very good TV series, but was not reality! ___________________.....
» 28/02/2020 12:55:27 PM Wow, ALTRAV, you really do have your head in the sand! You're so convinced that CO2 isn't.....
» 28/02/2020 11:06:29 AM ttbn, In most countries right is as aware of the causes of climate change as the left is. .....
» 28/02/2020 10:28:14 AM Chris Lewis and runner, It's actually called free speech. But it's closely associated with.....
» 28/02/2020 10:01:03 AM ALTRAV, It looks like you've just discovered one little part of what the climatologists kn.....
» 28/02/2020 9:27:38 AM Mr 0, Why do you think your smartness depends on formal qualifications?.....
» 27/02/2020 5:29:39 PM ttbn, There doesn't seem to be any evidence of deception regarding KiwiBuild, nor any grea.....
» 27/02/2020 10:26:10 AM ttbn, There's a lot more to manufacturing than fabrication. I know fabrication used to be.....
» 27/02/2020 9:29:23 AM >...and I did my scholarly degrees simply because I wanted to be smart as well. This I .....
» 27/02/2020 1:49:24 AM Mr 0, >I prefer scholarly degrees over vocational degrees. Why? ISTM non vocational deg.....
» 27/02/2020 1:14:12 AM Joe, Hayek saw the world in a very limited way. The square of the political compass is a m.....
» 26/02/2020 3:51:25 PM Joe, > But surely that doesn't justify terrorist acts, even if they could be 'understoo.....
» 26/02/2020 10:40:24 AM You're right, Joe. Genuine leftwing extremism mostly died out when the Soviet Union collap.....
» 26/02/2020 9:22:24 AM individual, Who change with the weather? Value for money is an objective not a tactic, an.....
» 26/02/2020 9:10:22 AM individual, Nuclear plants can be designed to withstand tsunamis. Though the Fukushima #1 .....
» 25/02/2020 9:40:52 PM ALTRAV, Business experience is certainly desirable, but it does not give a complete unders.....
» 25/02/2020 7:29:54 PM Taswegian, I see you're behind the times again! Firstly, SA's gas supply is not solely re.....
» 25/02/2020 5:43:12 PM ttbn, What do you reckon the odds are the Lib won't let him contest the next election as l.....
» 25/02/2020 10:33:49 AM Taswegian, Looking at the example of SA, we can see that those escalating costs of yours a.....
» 25/02/2020 10:11:14 AM Everyone gets that you dislike GetUp. But political attack ads are nothing new - they've b.....
» 21/02/2020 10:53:23 AM mhaze, As I said, I was wrong. Probably due to misunderstanding something I saw on TV, I t.....
» 21/02/2020 9:40:18 AM Josephus, Have you any evidence for those outlandish claims?.....
» 21/02/2020 8:59:53 AM Josephus, >Poll taken in America of 18 and under 39 year old in America dream of a soci.....
» 20/02/2020 10:58:19 PM ttbn, If it's not your list, why are you still falling to provide any attribution? As for.....
» 20/02/2020 6:33:33 PM mhaze, I've checked and found I was wrong - the Roman Empire didn't extend to the Danish b.....
» 20/02/2020 2:09:35 PM ttbn, Where did you get that list from? It's nowhere near as comprehensive (or contradict.....
» 20/02/2020 1:20:49 PM Bluebottle, In the 1990s, governments were very keen on privatisation. They thought the pr.....
» 18/02/2020 12:28:57 AM individual, Of course, and I did acknowledge its failure in this regard. Please also under.....
» 15/02/2020 10:03:32 PM I think Morrison has very little chance of winning the next election. The real question is.....
» 14/02/2020 1:27:25 PM Hasbeen, I guess to those who treat the environment with contempt, any source that doesn't.....
» 14/02/2020 9:50:51 AM Bluebottle, I wouldn't've directed my response to the author if I hadn't read the article......
» 13/02/2020 10:55:13 AM Geoff, Before going any further, please watch last week's episode of Media Watch – or at l.....
» 12/02/2020 1:57:55 AM ALTRAV, When I first read your last comment, I presumed it was an attempt at irony. But no.....
» 9/02/2020 2:47:46 PM Despite what the PC crowd are constantly telling us, sexuality is neither boolean nor enti.....
» 8/02/2020 11:37:19 PM ALTRAV, That link you posted is extremely strong proof of your own idiocy. I don't feel th.....
» 8/02/2020 2:05:40 AM ALTRAV, Are you really so delusional that you believe the climatologists were claiming it.....
» 7/02/2020 2:47:46 PM ALTRAV, I still can't understand how any intelligent person can believe AGW to be a scam, .....
» 3/02/2020 8:25:53 PM individual, >A National Service would create a mindset of care instead of the carelessn.....
» 31/01/2020 4:37:56 PM Jobography is too narrow a discipline for many people to specialise in. It's something any.....
» 30/01/2020 5:56:54 PM "The fact that nearly three quarters of all emerging infectious diseases originate in.....
» 28/01/2020 10:38:07 AM Shadow, Venezuela's heavy reliance on imports would not have prevented delinking of the Bo.....
» 27/01/2020 5:48:50 PM Not_Now.Soon, Do try to keep up! I have consistently opposed the UBI. Threads drift, and t.....
» 27/01/2020 2:57:40 PM Joe, The problem with the "when trouble's brewing" narrative is that you can't a.....
» 27/01/2020 2:30:39 PM Not_Now.Soon, The money would be coming from the RBA. It was not debt that collapsed Vene.....
» 27/01/2020 11:49:37 AM >Given that Sydney has more Chinese than any other city outside of China, Taiwan and th.....
» 27/01/2020 2:23:04 AM Hasbeen, The railway proposal you mentioned is known as Iron Boomerang. It may yet get bui.....
» 26/01/2020 8:24:06 PM mhaze, It's not that I have any fantasies, it's that I am aware of all the flaws in the co.....
» 26/01/2020 8:23:23 PM Armchair, Capitalism does NOT require a pool of 5% unemployed to prevent wage growth. If p.....
» 24/01/2020 3:33:31 PM mhaze, However much automation we get, the Federal government will always have the means t.....
» 23/01/2020 5:11:03 PM mhaze, We want MORE automation, not less! 'Tis stupid to pay people to do what a machine c.....
» 23/01/2020 2:00:34 PM UBI = utterly bad idea. Though small trials of it have ben successful, there would be ver.....
» 23/01/2020 11:41:22 AM AyameTan, If it had more rain, it wouldn't be desert! Have you failed to notice water can .....
» 23/01/2020 11:22:11 AM AyameTan, Are you aware of what happens in the desert after it rains?.....
» 23/01/2020 9:55:27 AM AyameTan, How many millennia would that take? Australia has no shortage of space; it's wat.....
» 23/01/2020 9:23:40 AM To a large extent, the reverse is true: population growth will make building more infrastr.....
» 22/01/2020 3:36:03 PM mhaze, it might help you to understand f you realise that the people who favour big govern.....
» 22/01/2020 11:28:44 AM Firstly, a Federal ICAC is needed regardless of whether it's needed for this issue. Secon.....
» 21/01/2020 12:41:07 PM Josephus, Either the writer of the blogpost you linked to is an idiot, or he's deliberatel.....
» 19/01/2020 1:10:13 AM GrahamY, Seriously? You think antarctic temperatures are extrapolated from just three weat.....
» 17/01/2020 9:13:37 AM What would you expect something major to look like?.....
» 15/01/2020 4:26:06 PM runner, >The abc would bully you if you are one of the 4 or 5 million who believe marri.....
» 15/01/2020 9:19:58 AM > Since when were drag queens for kids? I've long understood the answer to be: since Au.....
» 13/01/2020 9:37:34 PM If there's another camel cull here then it's not just the Somalis who are dismayed; I am t.....
» 9/01/2020 1:21:43 PM Hasbeen, >The only way to make government more efficient is to ban public servants bein.....
» 9/01/2020 1:05:06 PM Hasbeen, You seem to be attempting to paint wealth redistribution as a transfer of funds f.....
» 8/01/2020 9:52:13 AM Shadow, >As the future is largely 5G wireless, the FTTH is already partially obsolete. .....
» 8/01/2020 1:21:17 AM individual, Whether Whitlam was reforming or deforming, the selfish non thinkers took ever.....
» 7/01/2020 3:32:57 PM Alan B., >The Great Depression was created primarily by the concentration of our finite.....
» 7/01/2020 10:10:10 AM Shadow, >Considering that nearly 90% opted for the 25Mb/s option, the need for FTTH was.....
» 7/01/2020 1:04:20 AM Wow, Shadow, that's some pretty impressive spin you're engaged in there! But you seem to .....
» 6/01/2020 9:38:06 PM Unconventional monetary policy was conventional back the because the fixed value of our do.....
» 5/01/2020 2:51:21 PM runner, I see you're too chicken to answer the questions I put to you last time, so I'm no.....
» 4/01/2020 1:59:23 PM runner >I'll take my advice from our Creator. Oh I do wish you would - it would make su.....
» 4/01/2020 12:48:57 PM Was the FTTP plan devised in the Rudd era? ISTR it was announced by Gillard. Either way, .....
» 3/01/2020 9:32:01 PM Altrav, Your distrust of computers is so illogical that I feel I'd better check: are you a.....
» 3/01/2020 3:42:31 PM ALTRAV, Seriously? You're suggesting safety objectives should be ignored just because natu.....
» 3/01/2020 1:57:32 AM ALTRAV, Everyone has an emotional side, but mine doesn't prevent rational thought. Yours c.....
» 3/01/2020 1:09:29 AM Is Mise, My experience of NSW roads is rather limited, but from what you're saying it soun.....
» 2/01/2020 1:20:01 PM ALTRAV, Apportioning blame to those who are at fault for an accident is no substitute for .....
» 2/01/2020 12:01:24 PM It's not fewer economist we need, it's better economists. And that means economists who do.....
» 31/12/2019 10:08:09 AM ALTRAV, For decades it was thought that having well defined roads, with vehicles on them a.....
» 30/12/2019 2:52:38 PM plantagenet, You're conflating two different electrodesalination technologies. CDI is a n.....
» 30/12/2019 10:00:05 AM ttbn, Why do you regard the results of Australia's decision to cooperate internationally a.....
» 29/12/2019 4:17:57 PM Josephus, did you read the document you linked to? Trump's test results are not on record,.....
» 29/12/2019 11:01:54 AM Wow, the amount of panic in response to a quite reasonable plan is astounding! As everyon.....
» 27/12/2019 2:31:23 PM individual, That's a good question. The right has controlled the economic narrative for de.....
» 26/12/2019 10:54:23 PM Hasbeen, >No confusion there Aidan. Once people become adults the automatically >bec.....
» 24/12/2019 5:28:55 PM ttbn, >If Aidan is interested in dementia, a good place would be to start with his own .....
» 24/12/2019 1:55:42 PM Hasbeen, I think you're confusing most adults with most right-wingers. Most adults to not.....
» 24/12/2019 9:46:46 AM ttbn, Nothing new, yet you were still unable to think of the answer. Are you suffering fro.....
» 24/12/2019 1:22:07 AM Struth, ttbn, if you really can't think of any more that can be done, I suggest you ask th.....
» 18/12/2019 12:15:49 PM Assembly Line Human, >Targets and quotas are the same. In both situations, there is a p.....
» 15/12/2019 11:34:16 AM Assembly Line Human, > Many companies try to achieve diversity targets, but how else ca.....
» 15/12/2019 11:25:13 AM [Apologies for my two typos in the above quote: "article" shouldn't be capitaliz.....
» 15/12/2019 11:18:50 AM Yuyutsu, It is you who's trying to manipulate the language to politicize this. And think G.....
» 14/12/2019 5:38:49 PM That's why we don't have diversity quotas!.....
» 13/12/2019 8:14:27 PM Yuyutsu, I'm well aware the hydrogen in the sun won't last for ever. But we can't prolong .....
» 12/12/2019 11:19:18 AM Galen, >The problem I am talking about is the mantra which includes the false narrative.....
» 12/12/2019 12:51:32 AM Bernie Masters, Our big supermarket chains have no problem getting credit, and in the curr.....
» 11/12/2019 3:55:17 PM Galen, > There is absolutely no link between Co2 and temperature, There's a very strong.....
» 11/12/2019 3:53:40 PM ttbn, > so does the IPCC whose spokespeople have recently repeated that > climate ch.....
» 11/12/2019 12:28:53 PM runner, Belief in absolutes does not require belief in God. Recognition o hypocrisy does n.....
» 11/12/2019 9:57:43 AM Bazz, Where there's rooftop parking, it's much much much better to have it under the shade.....
» 10/12/2019 4:35:36 PM Bazz, Svenmark was under the impression that global warming had stopped. But the data sinc.....
» 10/12/2019 11:30:41 AM ttbn, Seeing solutions does NOT depend on ignorance of the issues. Renewable energy reall.....
» 9/12/2019 11:38:47 AM Bazz, >when was the Dalton minimum ? Early 19th century, mostly. It started at the end .....
» 9/12/2019 11:14:40 AM Belly, > Not enough to drop the middle eastern desert dress, One feature of multicultur.....
» 9/12/2019 1:43:59 AM ttbn, Thanks for the insight into the reasons for your denials. I suggest you reconsider t.....
» 9/12/2019 1:29:24 AM Hasbeen, > Aidan, how many people with SUV do you think it took to start & then stop th.....
» 8/12/2019 1:21:29 AM Joe, > other awards ( a certificate, two TAFE diplomas, an honours, three PG diplomas a.....
» 6/12/2019 12:33:23 AM Yuyutsu, Terrorists are criminals of the worst kind, If they were prisoners of war, there'.....
» 5/12/2019 1:39:09 PM Of course it's not OK to make up stories and tell lies. So please stop doing so!.....
» 5/12/2019 1:57:22 AM Hasbeen, This site is not a scholarly work, and references are generally not well received.....
» 4/12/2019 1:59:11 PM individual, Why did you outsource your thinking to the Murdoch Press?.....
» 3/12/2019 11:43:24 PM Hasbeen, I'm not sure what your point is there. The link between pressure and temperature .....
» 3/12/2019 4:42:01 PM Taswegian, Nuclear power is an expensive option. SA has vast solar and wind resources, and.....
» 3/12/2019 12:36:30 PM Struth, Hasbeen, your hypocrisy is astounding! WTF did you think cause ocean currents in .....
» 3/12/2019 11:34:12 AM Taswegian, When the EVs are there, no doubt their batteries will be chargehed. And no doub.....
» 3/12/2019 10:17:56 AM ITYF the reason for the change isn't because the climate's not as hot as predicted, but be.....
» 3/12/2019 1:43:51 AM Fester, Your information is out of date. Solar plus batteries is already cheap enough to c.....
» 2/12/2019 5:08:10 PM Hasbeen, Is that really all you have to say? ____________________________________________.....
» 29/11/2019 2:20:36 PM Hasbeen, >Both Japanese & Russian researchers have results suggesting that increasing C.....
» 28/11/2019 9:29:12 AM ttbn, Successful multiculturalism is where everyone's right to freedom of culture is respe.....
» 22/11/2019 10:20:11 AM Taswegian, Previiously when expensive oil dragged the economy down, it was because of a la.....
» 11/11/2019 10:02:45 PM Does anyone have any evidence that there's a policy of no hazard reduction? Does anyone ha.....
» 11/11/2019 9:52:37 AM plantagenet, Though Trump has the shortest odds of any single candidate, they're still lon.....
» 8/11/2019 1:59:53 AM Yuyutsu, >They make EVERYTHING there, low or high. Their ability to make high tech stuf.....
» 8/11/2019 1:57:43 AM Yuyutsu, There is, unfortunately, more decline in SA than the eastern states. And it certa.....
» 7/11/2019 1:49:31 AM Hasbeen, >The real problem ttbn is that at some time the interconnector plug may be pul.....
» 7/11/2019 1:13:21 AM Adelaide is not dying; it's just a bit slow to wake up! Interest rates have been set at l.....
» 6/11/2019 5:29:32 PM Regarding the thread title, AUI it's more a north-south thing than east-west. Many (though.....
» 4/11/2019 8:58:11 AM >The Great Depression and the GFC, the two most severe economic downturns in modern his.....
» 2/11/2019 4:12:29 PM ttbn, >The IPCC’s modelled pathways show that US $2.4 trillion must be invested in new.....
» 2/11/2019 4:11:30 PM ttbn, >You don't know what you said. Yu seem to be having a bit of pronoun trouble ther.....
» 1/11/2019 3:37:10 PM ttbn, You are the one making misleading statements. I SPECIFIED that the link referred to.....
» 1/11/2019 11:16:54 AM Meanwhile all that investment in renewables is delivering tangible benefits. SA had Austra.....
» 27/10/2019 12:04:28 PM Bazz, >The IPCC models do not take account in their models of the effect of clouds. WR.....
» 23/10/2019 11:31:12 PM Armchair, >I honestly don't understand how it's a false assumption. Couldn't you have k.....
» 22/10/2019 11:45:33 PM ttbn, > the years 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1100, 1200, and 1400AD, were all HOTTER than the.....
» 22/10/2019 11:01:10 PM Armchair, Social justice is a fair go for all. Overreacting to schoolboys singing I Wish A.....
» 22/10/2019 6:11:33 PM Bszz, The problem with the "it's the sun" explanation is that observations have .....
» 22/10/2019 11:53:11 AM Armchair, >What the hell does 'zero net emissions' mean anyway? It means taking more CO.....
» 22/10/2019 11:36:34 AM runner, I'm not trying to kill the messenger; I'm speaking the truth. I refer you again to.....
» 22/10/2019 10:15:12 AM ttbn, >The wildest goals come from Extinction Rebellion: zero emissions by 2025 That's .....
» 16/10/2019 6:33:13 PM ttbn, >Your impertinent questioning doesn't encourage further attention to your post. N.....
» 16/10/2019 6:17:16 PM runner, If your definition of socialism is "the ideology the abc has been pushing for.....
» 16/10/2019 3:54:33 PM runner, Considering the lies Trump's told, why don't you think he deserves contempt? Have .....
» 16/10/2019 3:28:35 PM The hydrogen economy will come, but not as Keith Suter envisages. Plenty of hydrogen will .....
» 16/10/2019 1:42:34 PM I reckon if you told the average Australian that the Liberal Party is no loner liberal, th.....
» 16/10/2019 1:35:06 PM ttbn, What do you think socialism means? Which of America's presidents do you think have b.....
» 15/10/2019 6:35:56 PM runner, It's bad enough that you've let your own ideology blind you in one eye, but it's w.....
» 15/10/2019 2:14:03 PM Lazy, decepive article! Isn't Geoff aware that most blackouts are due to transformer failu.....
» 14/10/2019 3:23:16 PM Armchair, your definition of "investment" is too narrow. A highly skilled workfo.....
» 14/10/2019 2:51:40 PM HenryL, Refugees should be treated as individuals, not groups. The law should be enforced,.....
» 14/10/2019 11:14:56 AM ttbn, I have never been a fundamentalist, and I oppose fundamentalism in all its forms. I'.....
» 14/10/2019 9:14:36 AM Belly, I should add that it's not a question of whether those rights would be granted to m.....
» 14/10/2019 8:58:53 AM individual, That's irrelevant. The issue is removing the power they have over others. Thou.....
» 14/10/2019 8:48:37 AM Belly, that depends on what you mean by "such freedoms" and what you regard as a.....
» 14/10/2019 8:21:59 AM Bellly, It's very unlikely that any of the perpetrators of that violence and intimidation .....
» 14/10/2019 12:48:13 AM People should be free to determine their own culture. That's what real multiculturalism is.....
» 14/10/2019 12:40:26 AM The real tragedy is that Turks and Kurds are natural allies, like the British and the Iris.....
» 14/10/2019 12:28:15 AM Hasbeen, >These women are traitors to Australia. Some are. Others are victims of circum.....
» 14/10/2019 12:12:21 AM Armchair, >Is it Cloward and Piven, or total incompetence? No, it's a sensible investme.....
» 3/10/2019 12:36:12 PM Nice try, Hasbeen, but your claim that it's all down to adjustments is a pack of lies. Eve.....
» 3/10/2019 1:17:01 AM ALTRAV (continued) It is not a desire not to feel like the odd one out that determines my.....
» 3/10/2019 1:10:26 AM ALTRAV, Your assumption that because I'm not a climatologist I know about as little about .....
» 1/10/2019 1:40:33 AM Josephus, what do you mean by "Google closes down"? ALTRAV, do you honestly bel.....
» 1/10/2019 1:28:55 AM ALTRAV, >were you watching the same video? Yes. >Boring? Very dull. >It wasn't me.....
» 30/09/2019 1:59:05 PM individual Our language has no shortage of words for things that are common and obvious. I.....
» 30/09/2019 1:17:30 AM individual, If it can't be explained then it's probably wrong. __________________________.....
» 28/09/2019 8:41:11 PM Individual, The socialists make a distinction between parasites and symbionts. Maybe it's .....
» 28/09/2019 3:51:06 AM individual, >Do you really not get it what was meant by having the iphone in one hand w.....
» 28/09/2019 3:22:27 AM Hasbeen, I remember when I was at Uni, we were told why learning the mathematics was so im.....
» 27/09/2019 1:33:18 PM Can you give some examples of these many new level crossings please? And what makes you t.....
» 27/09/2019 1:19:23 PM Not_Now.Soon It's not either-or, and many of the same actions with reduce both localised p.....
» 27/09/2019 2:21:51 AM ALTRAV, you have it backwards: it is failing to act that is akin to sending a man to his d.....
» 26/09/2019 12:11:31 PM Hasbeen, I was careful to specify "arid environments" rather than deserts. Indee.....
» 25/09/2019 11:26:20 PM Hasbeen, There are bits of nature that are fragile and bits of nature that are not. Arid e.....
» 15/09/2019 2:32:04 PM ALTRAV, Do you think it's good to have people doing low productivity work when they're cap.....
» 15/09/2019 2:03:04 AM Jonathan J. Ariel, Yes, there are two approaches Australia could take to create more jobs:.....
» 12/09/2019 9:56:04 AM What puzzles me is why the government regards the cashless card trials as a success? From .....
» 10/09/2019 9:55:03 PM Bazz, >The locals who had worked on those farms for generation had learnt nothing about.....
» 10/09/2019 9:37:47 PM Foxy, Yes there were bits fit from Latin, Greek, Norse etc (and if you go further back, Sa.....
» 10/09/2019 6:47:14 PM Foxy, >So where did the English language come from? >It would be interesting to know.....
» 9/09/2019 3:05:01 AM JBowyer, cost o renewables has everything to do with it. Yes there is an incentive t add g.....
» 8/09/2019 11:25:55 PM Foxy, Just listing words like that is usually boring - they need a context to be interesti.....
» 7/09/2019 5:16:00 PM Sorry, Bazz, I thought you were in Melbourne. I accept the Sydney housing situation is as .....
» 7/09/2019 12:14:25 PM Hasbeen, your conclusion that I have a problem with reality is the result of your cognitiv.....
» 6/09/2019 3:46:02 PM Hasbeen, >If there has been so much gold plating of the distribution systems, how come,.....
» 6/09/2019 12:24:12 PM JBowyer, >Aiden, one simple question. If renewables are so cheap and coal is so expensi.....
» 5/09/2019 3:45:02 PM Bazz, What trouble is it you're referring to? If it's the statewide blackout, that was not.....
» 5/09/2019 1:31:19 PM Despite the title of this thread, a lot of people in it are still living in fantasy land. .....
» 4/09/2019 1:55:31 AM Why do so many people think Australia's objective should be to deter migration rather than.....
» 1/09/2019 3:31:43 PM individual, Your Wednesday post was incoherent. You appear to be relying on some false ass.....
» 1/09/2019 3:02:56 PM Foxy, >I presume that Nades went back to Sri Lanka 3 times >from Australia. The civi.....
» 1/09/2019 1:18:34 AM >In that judgement the judge noted that Nades had returned to Sri Lanka on 3 occasions .....
» 31/08/2019 10:09:39 PM Belly, > Now Foxy, this is about every toilet being made in to a unisex toilet Then why.....
» 29/08/2019 6:27:55 PM Shadow, > Germany's electrical energy power consumption is annually about 550 TWhrs so .....
» 28/08/2019 11:01:28 AM individual, Agreeing to disagree is the last refuge of those with deeply flawed arguments .....
» 27/08/2019 10:34:11 AM individual, Regardless of what you say, cutting red tape won't prevent companies charging .....
» 26/08/2019 3:31:19 PM Vern has correctly identified that there is a groupthink problem, but has got its implicat.....
» 26/08/2019 1:39:07 PM ttbn, I think your memory's tricks on you. Heatwaves didn't cause widespread blackouts in .....
» 24/08/2019 10:35:28 AM Shadow, Apologies for the above typo. Germany are planning to complete the phaseout of coa.....
» 24/08/2019 4:27:29 AM individual, When two things have people controlling the strings, one will usually be cheap.....
» 24/08/2019 4:25:05 AM Shadow, >Serves you right for laughing at the truth: No, I'm not laughing, as your atti.....
» 23/08/2019 1:55:23 PM Shadow, >The whole argument that renewables are cheaper than coal fired generation is l.....
» 22/08/2019 3:26:08 PM Bazz, >Aiden, well I see that you realise 100% renewables is impracticable. Not as most.....
» 22/08/2019 3:45:03 AM Steele, Was there ever a serious suggestion that the PRRT should be used to subsidise dome.....
» 21/08/2019 5:59:17 PM Shadow, The cost of renewable power is very low. Indeed that's a crucial factor in keeping.....
» 9/08/2019 1:00:43 PM HenryL, Can't you lifestream NSW TV over the internet? I have with the ABC, and I assumed .....
» 5/08/2019 11:06:25 PM Try replying: you'll notice under the Preview button there's a checkbox saying: Send me a.....
» 1/08/2019 1:40:49 PM Hasbeen, it's likely the price of batterie will fall when batteries based on cheap element.....
» 1/08/2019 11:23:20 AM What McMullen fails to explain is why Bastani thinks it's desirable, when we reach the ful.....
» 30/07/2019 12:45:54 PM If we need to teach boys and girls differently because they are different, then surely we .....
» 17/07/2019 1:58:38 AM Shadow, It's disappointing your opinion failed to change when the facts did. Renewables us.....
» 16/07/2019 11:22:41 AM Bazz, Anyone who makes the claim that the anthropogenic portion of the increase in CO2 is .....
» 15/07/2019 10:28:36 AM VK3AUU, If that's the case, he should have no trouble answering the question. So why do yo.....
» 14/07/2019 10:18:50 PM MW Poynter, "Since 2014, 535 new LBP colonies consisting of 3 to 11 individuals has b.....
» 12/07/2019 1:24:32 PM VK3AUU, How much evidence is there of Leadbeaters possums in replanted logged areas?.....
» 11/07/2019 11:45:32 PM No, Diver, that's not 4 Corners. That's Sky News!.....
» 11/07/2019 11:41:44 PM Better late than never! >"The power to advise is the power to coerce" I don'.....
» 11/07/2019 10:12:22 PM Hasbeen, I was very pleased with your first post in this thread, which injected a lot of s.....
» 11/07/2019 12:09:07 PM Obviously there should be more done to avoid inaccuracies, but when I watched that 4 Corne.....
» 9/07/2019 12:46:14 PM individual and Mr 0, This is NOT about cotton. I suggest you watch the 4 Corners episode, .....
» 9/07/2019 10:15:34 AM ttbn, I think you're being a bit unfair. Why don't mainland bogans deserve Jacqui Lambie t.....
» 4/07/2019 1:44:34 PM ttbn, Nobody should ever be above criticism from anybody! _______________________________.....
» 1/07/2019 10:54:18 AM Though he was unwise, he certainly was moral. It's what he believes. Nor was it discrimina.....
» 29/06/2019 6:17:56 PM Not_Now.Soon, >Is this fair on the grandmother to have to take on that responsibility a.....
» 28/06/2019 12:32:43 PM Don, it is worrying that you can't tell the difference between the positions of the scient.....
» 27/06/2019 3:54:42 PM Hasbeen, >Give us your rationalisation of why all this global warming is making our win.....
» 27/06/2019 11:45:06 AM Finding an alternative explanation for the warming is only half the story. A credible alte.....
» 25/06/2019 3:41:49 PM Luciferase, It's relevant because it includes some grid scale storage. Duh! Please also no.....
» 24/06/2019 3:07:19 AM Just the usual spin, Luciferase, but thanks for trying! >It's no example of going off-g.....
» 23/06/2019 11:25:45 PM Correction: I should've written "easily avoided" rather than "easily evaded.....
» 23/06/2019 11:22:28 PM Tristan, I'm aware that the Venezuelan government claim them to be very harsh, but looking.....
» 22/06/2019 5:57:52 PM Tristan, Venezuela isn't in a bad way because of foreign intervention but because the soci.....
» 21/06/2019 11:54:28 AM >It will also cost the Budget $160 billion over 10 years.This when we're likely heading.....
» 17/06/2019 1:11:51 PM Alan B., Maximum strength is irrelevant - it does not equate to required strength! There a.....
» 17/06/2019 11:09:49 AM Clarification needed here: How much of this dam raising would be for additional storage (w.....
» 17/06/2019 10:48:53 AM Josephus, If that's what you're after, I suggest you read http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/.....
» 16/06/2019 2:45:03 PM runner, If Labor never worries about the thuggery, why did the Hawke government ban the BL.....
» 16/06/2019 2:42:58 PM Ezhil, This is not about the justifications of the past - this is about freedom. Banning p.....
» 16/06/2019 12:26:38 PM Bazz, I followed your link, and found one of the commenters had posted a link that debunke.....
» 16/06/2019 1:59:12 AM Foxy, Would I be correct in thinking you're unaware of the story behind Waltzing Matilda? .....
» 13/06/2019 1:54:57 PM As national anthems go, ours is pretty uninspiring. It's far from the worst, but I'm sure .....
» 13/06/2019 1:17:34 PM runner, Why are you under the impression that globalists, greens and unionists want to pre.....
» 12/06/2019 4:25:59 PM Australia should have diplomatic relations with the Holy See, but do we really need a sepa.....
» 12/06/2019 2:16:16 PM Hasbeen, Despite your blindly ant-union narrative, it was the combination of the high Auss.....
» 12/06/2019 11:35:53 AM Individual, I didn't watch ABC News on Monday, and there was nothing about it yesterday. B.....
» 12/06/2019 10:43:19 AM What taxes would those be, individual? If Adani pulls out, it's far more likely to be due .....
» 11/06/2019 6:43:24 PM Most people regard ON as a whiff, but it usually lacks common sense. Despite this, small p.....
» 10/06/2019 6:26:28 PM Canem (continued) While your P&O CEO makes a good point (people can get so obsessed with t.....
» 10/06/2019 6:19:23 PM 5. It is silly to base cost estimates of tunnelling under land on a tunnel under water. An.....
» 10/06/2019 4:42:25 PM Canem, 1. Such a challenge was not my intention, and I apologise for giving you the impres.....
» 9/06/2019 1:02:39 PM Canem, You seem to have far less understanding of civil engineering than you think you do......
» 7/06/2019 6:39:14 PM Luciferase, Instead of just replacing one lot of crackpot ideas with anther, we should loo.....
» 7/06/2019 6:10:16 PM Hi Joe, If you're telling the truth, then your memory is playing tricks on you. But I thin.....
» 7/06/2019 3:08:27 PM Shadow, I don't recall hearing any such claim at the time, and the Libs' tactics of blamin.....
» 7/06/2019 1:56:03 AM Loudmouth, Why do you continue to falsely accuse Tony Jones of a slip even after I've post.....
» 6/06/2019 2:26:38 AM ALTRAV, It's not who you think. Though the details are complicated, the basic idea is ver.....
» 5/06/2019 11:26:06 AM Josephus (continued) As for the Maldives, the nation (made up of many islands) is severel.....
» 5/06/2019 11:17:43 AM Josephus, There have been many "childish insults" in this thread, more directed .....
» 5/06/2019 3:20:02 AM runner, Taking the teachings of Jesus seriously is not a failed ideology. You should try i.....
» 4/06/2019 6:35:24 PM This article is Trump level revisionism! The unequivocal fact is polls did not predict the.....
» 4/06/2019 6:10:42 PM Loudmouth, The QandA transcript is now up at http://www.abc.net.au/qanda/2019-03-06/111435.....
» 4/06/2019 3:48:44 PM runner, > if spending time in Indo helping out some of these guys is heresy so be it. T.....
» 4/06/2019 1:18:38 PM Shadow, When Peter Costello was treasurer, I believed him to be a competent economic manag.....
» 3/06/2019 2:13:35 PM Josephus, Try reading the conclusion of your last ink: Even with the increased demand for .....
» 2/06/2019 1:39:55 AM What makes you think the reduction in journey time on the Armidale line could be almost th.....
» 1/06/2019 7:41:34 PM Josephus, Firstly, do you yet concede that these "climate zealots" who want to b.....
» 31/05/2019 6:23:30 PM Csnem, Excessive quoting is annoying, especially when you don't even address the points yo.....
» 31/05/2019 1:50:08 PM Canem, >Africa - 7 children per female, population 1.3 billion >India - 4 children .....
» 31/05/2019 2:50:06 AM individual, Where did you get the barmy idea that people can't change after several thousa.....
» 30/05/2019 5:51:58 PM That's not a bullet - 'tis more like a ping pong ball. And now we're stuck with three mor.....
» 29/05/2019 9:48:34 PM individual, Why do you think that's the only remedy? There's far more to environmental im.....
» 29/05/2019 3:06:35 PM Josephus (continued), >Oral history gives us an event of great proportions when the Ear.....
» 29/05/2019 1:48:56 PM Josephus, >So Aidan, are you claiming "the Earth is warming due to CO2"? Yes......
» 28/05/2019 2:13:20 PM Hi Joe, >And how much is taken up annually by the environment, naturally ? Currently ab.....
» 28/05/2019 11:36:50 AM Josephus, My deduction was correct. The Greenhouse Effect is not synonymous with global wa.....
» 28/05/2019 12:42:51 AM Josephus, I notice you still haven't provided the source of your extraordinary claim about.....
» 28/05/2019 12:12:41 AM Lower interest rates are good, because they enable long term investment decisions to be ma.....
» 26/05/2019 6:04:53 PM Josephus, try reading those articles you hot linked to. An ice age is not imminent - it's .....
» 24/05/2019 9:39:22 AM Is Mise, > A majority of the Australian voters thought the same as I did. You think t.....
» 24/05/2019 9:33:32 AM So now we know the source of the stupid and iniquitous idea of ending franking credits for.....
» 24/05/2019 1:48:20 AM runner, Nobody who'd been keeping up with events could possibly have claimed last Friday t.....
» 24/05/2019 1:47:24 AM Hasbeen, Your argument looks a lot like: • All cats have five legs • Aidan disagrees •The.....
» 23/05/2019 12:47:52 AM runner, Why was it hilarious? And why won't you answer my question about what exactly you .....
» 22/05/2019 5:34:37 PM Loudmouth, Yeah, well, that was my point: how much CO2 is produced in the manufacture (and.....
» 22/05/2019 1:24:24 PM individual, There are great efficiency gains to be made in many areas, packaging being one.....
» 22/05/2019 12:48:03 AM individual It's not a matter of curbing activity, but of making it environmentally sustain.....
» 17/05/2019 2:29:45 PM Hasbeen, I try to be honest all the time. Perhaps for once in your life you could try to m.....
» 17/05/2019 11:52:44 AM Foxy, According to the Apple dictionary: shew verb old-fashioned spelling of show......
» 17/05/2019 11:00:00 AM Big Nana, When you pay taxes, you cease to own the money; the government owns it instead. .....
» 17/05/2019 10:41:54 AM WTF are you on about, individual? What handouts do Labor now support that they didn't in t.....
» 17/05/2019 1:26:53 AM Hasbeen, that study's conclusion is based on the fact that a large proportion of Germany's.....
» 16/05/2019 6:26:04 PM Hasbeen, you're not the first to come up with that terrible idea. The problem it's a solut.....
» 16/05/2019 1:38:50 PM >Well, all he did was ask a reasonable question which should have received an honest an.....
» 16/05/2019 1:20:26 PM Yuyutsu, >I think that the most effective way to defend Australia and its long shores f.....
» 16/05/2019 12:53:11 AM Luciferase, Yes the battery stops the blackouts. To say it's nothing to do with the flee.....
» 16/05/2019 12:51:48 AM Luciferase, Saying that it's class warfare to tax investment income at the same rate as em.....
» 15/05/2019 1:50:57 PM There's two issues to consider: how much people know, and how much they care. People do l.....
» 15/05/2019 2:39:14 AM ttbn, some of us have noticed the economics have changed; coal is no longer the cheap opti.....
» 14/05/2019 1:09:41 PM Belly and Loudmouth, I think Paul's point was that there are people in America who regard .....
» 14/05/2019 12:58:25 PM ndividual, What do yo think the original Labor doctrine was? And is it something that woul.....
» 13/05/2019 6:34:08 PM Alan B., I too am an engineer, though I'm civil. If you don't want your credibility to be.....
» 13/05/2019 4:58:18 PM GrahamY, I admit it was slightly unbalanced. Half hour current affairs shows generally don.....
» 13/05/2019 4:32:19 PM Luciferase, >Non-grid-scale storage ...including what everyone but you regards as grid-.....
» 13/05/2019 12:21:26 PM ttbn, Further to my original post, the full rebuttal of Gottliebsen's claim is at http://r.....
» 13/05/2019 10:33:36 AM ttbn, if you think our governments are bad, have a look at what the Poms get!.....
» 13/05/2019 10:17:41 AM ttbn, that "piece of information" has already been exposed as a hoax. Firstly no.....
» 13/05/2019 12:35:14 AM Here's a hint, individual: When governments reduce the size of the public service, they u.....
» 12/05/2019 5:30:04 PM Luciferase, baseload doesn't equal dispatchable electricity. Energy economics in Germany .....
» 11/05/2019 2:01:02 AM Is Mise, Surely that's destitution rather than mere poverty?.....
» 10/05/2019 11:56:10 AM Luciferase (continued) >The question "If grid-storage is so feasible why does Germ.....
» 10/05/2019 11:55:29 AM Luciferace, There's a very broad consensus that we need to grow the pie, but you seem to h.....
» 9/05/2019 6:41:05 PM GrahamY, Is the Murdoch Press the sole source of your information? It doesn't seem a likel.....
» 9/05/2019 4:51:33 PM Luciferase (continued) SA will definitely get more batteries, and probably pumped storage .....
» 9/05/2019 4:49:50 PM Luciiferase, Your inference that my statement "Germany does place a higher value on s.....
» 8/05/2019 7:01:02 PM Luciferase, I go with the truth, not the rhetoric and spin. Germany does place a higher va.....
» 8/05/2019 1:35:18 PM Hasbeen and Shadow, How long will it take you to realise it's all just crap? ____________.....
» 7/05/2019 2:19:52 AM Luciferase, >Renewables have done nothing on emissions in Germany or SA I could see why.....
» 6/05/2019 11:28:29 PM GrahamY, Do you think Bill Shorten's response to the accusation of short changing workers .....
» 6/05/2019 5:17:57 PM Belly, I think you misunderstand my point. Governments rise and fall, and eventually if th.....
» 6/05/2019 12:20:32 PM Belly, Surely if anyone is that country, it's the people not the government?.....
» 5/05/2019 7:52:42 PM I am not concerned by these alleged crimes. There was an allegation of rape, but no actua.....
» 4/05/2019 7:13:39 PM Hasbeen, What exactly do you think is wrong with London having a Muslim mayor? Does he hav.....
» 3/05/2019 2:45:14 AM Raycom, Firstly, apologies for getting your name wrong last time. Secondly, it's true that.....
» 1/05/2019 3:14:10 PM Wow, Hasbeen, I hadn't realised you were that ignorant of how businesses operated! They a.....
» 30/04/2019 6:04:50 PM Raycon, you're copying Hasbeen's mistake of assuming the simplest explanation to be true e.....
» 30/04/2019 1:09:55 AM Hasbeen? Seriously? YOU think I'M coming the raw prawn? Supposing all restrictions on ga.....
» 29/04/2019 2:06:17 PM Shouldn't this've gone in the Elections section? And despite the Senate being described a.....
» 29/04/2019 1:42:16 PM Hasbeen, Whether or not you support copying the "lefty" policies of the USA, it'.....
» 29/04/2019 12:35:16 PM individual, All thinking Australians will be against you on that one! The thinkers make up.....
» 29/04/2019 11:09:29 AM Graham, why have you ignored the biggest source of the price difference? The USA reserves.....
» 27/04/2019 11:08:43 AM >That's assuming a particular person is a terrorist. Technically no it isn't. What I sa.....
» 26/04/2019 12:12:48 PM ttbn, > Morrison should be aware that this country is founded on the “the Judeo-Christi.....
» 25/04/2019 9:04:31 PM Belly, Supposing a country got all the revenue it needed from land tax, why should it be o.....
» 25/04/2019 6:14:08 PM Belly, I find labels such as "capitalism" unhelpful because they cover a very br.....
» 25/04/2019 4:45:58 PM According to the linked report, crucifixion in Saudi Arabia has a completely different mea.....
» 24/04/2019 4:59:43 PM Loudmouth, 1. I can't remember what proportion of the increased CO2 is being absorbed by .....
» 24/04/2019 4:46:26 PM Belly, How you feel is irrelevant. As the problem is global, helping others to reduce thei.....
» 22/04/2019 2:07:39 PM HenryL, >acid attacks are part of the culture in Bangladesh and Pakistan and they are b.....
» 22/04/2019 12:28:02 AM Bazz, The thing about scientific consensus is that it's driven by evidence. Right now ther.....
» 22/04/2019 12:04:30 AM At the risk of being labelled an apologist, I'd like to point out that this was another ex.....
» 19/04/2019 6:39:58 PM Australia as a nation should not. But I'm sure many Australians will as individuals, and r.....
» 17/04/2019 11:23:33 PM ALTRAV, If I linked to a web page claiming the Apollo moon landings were faked by the toot.....
» 17/04/2019 7:18:58 PM ATRAV, >Aiden if you care to read first and comment later, I did appologise as I did n.....
» 17/04/2019 1:46:21 AM ALTRAV What's objectionable is not that you've posted the same thing twice, but that you'r.....
» 16/04/2019 10:17:37 PM SAINTS, "We were, as people with mortgages during this time, with a mortgages in the .....
» 16/04/2019 4:38:58 PM kirby483, An interest rate cut will still stimulate the economy; it just might not stimula.....
» 16/04/2019 1:49:28 PM ateday, >The lord helps those who help themselves. That's probably the most common her.....
» 16/04/2019 12:59:58 PM Belly, WTF is the Captain? ______________________________________________________________.....
» 16/04/2019 10:35:27 AM ttbn, Have you ever actually been to a Uniting Church service? I attend regularly and can .....
» 13/04/2019 1:24:53 PM Belly, >But for sure and certain we are headed for an EV in most homes t's not certain .....
» 10/04/2019 1:19:44 PM Armchair, It will probably surprise you to learn that runner is not typical of Christians!.....
» 10/04/2019 1:01:11 PM Hasbeen, Firstly, rest assured the government will not be forcing you into an electric car.....
» 10/04/2019 3:19:13 AM calwest, The railway would compete with aviation for Sydney to Melbourne traffic in two wa.....
» 9/04/2019 5:06:09 PM calwest (continued) >Trouble is, you leave public spending to public service clerks wit.....
» 9/04/2019 5:05:30 PM calwest, Solar panels are much cheaper than they were a decade ago, and the grid means hom.....
» 9/04/2019 3:13:05 PM runner, If you think that liar Trump is a breath of fresh air, you've obviously inhaled so.....
» 9/04/2019 1:42:30 PM Alan B., I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Is it an analogy of how impra.....
» 8/04/2019 6:43:42 PM calwest (continued) >And why haven't you dealt with the idiocy of similar disastrous g.....
» 8/04/2019 6:41:15 PM calwest, The "two or three services a day in each direction" claim is based on a.....
» 8/04/2019 12:55:27 PM Ross Elliott clearly knows very little about high speed rail. And I see calmest shares his.....
» 7/04/2019 12:40:52 PM ttbn, Your claim that registration is waived for EVs in Norway is totally wrong. The numbe.....
» 5/04/2019 9:16:54 PM Bazz, >We are going to be short of electricity, definitely if Labour wins. That's an ab.....
» 4/04/2019 12:47:25 AM Luciferase, When the wind's not blowing it would come from storage (in hydro, battery, che.....
» 3/04/2019 7:32:06 PM SteeleRedux, 'Twas speculation and high interest rates, rather than the mining boom, which.....
» 3/04/2019 5:36:00 AM Hasbeen, It appears I may be wrong about the restart after the statewide blackout, as I ca.....
» 3/04/2019 12:04:01 AM SteeleRedux, The fact that this was about a trivial breach of the rules is precisely why i.....
» 2/04/2019 10:11:52 PM Hasbeen, in addition to my previous comments: the idea that all the EVs would start chargi.....
» 2/04/2019 10:00:39 PM Struth, there's so many ridiculous statements on this thread it's difficult to know when t.....
» 2/04/2019 1:47:05 PM Hassbeen, >You can't start a grid with wind power, windmills require power to be fed to.....
» 30/03/2019 2:49:55 AM mhaze, Wrong on all counts! What exactly are those "loony notions" that you thi.....
» 29/03/2019 12:50:40 PM Do the proceedings of this court case, or indeed any civil court case, really count as &qu.....
» 28/03/2019 11:52:24 AM NathanJ, If it's thousands of years from now, that's very different. Assuming an average i.....
» 28/03/2019 10:17:13 AM The first thing I'd do is check my location. Because if they're Taiwan dollars (for exampl.....
» 28/03/2019 2:07:38 AM mhaze, The mechanism to allow unlimited borrowing is the combination of the government cre.....
» 25/03/2019 10:30:19 PM ttbn, I apologise for not having explained it sufficiently clearly. What in particular do.....
» 25/03/2019 5:32:52 PM mhaze, The market driven devaluation happens in real time, so is likely to be smaller and .....
» 25/03/2019 1:54:16 AM mhaze, What you regard as "semantics" are actually the difference between the tr.....
» 25/03/2019 12:37:29 AM ttbn (continued) >How do people have a “high standard of living throughout their lives”.....
» 25/03/2019 12:33:24 AM No, ttbn, it's not that I can't answer your questions - it's simply that other things (lik.....
» 22/03/2019 4:59:47 PM mhaze, What exactly do you think my "daft notion" is? If you look at the wording.....
» 22/03/2019 2:32:36 PM ttbn, From a moral perspective, reliance on interest is a bad thing. As a Christian I've r.....
» 22/03/2019 10:27:55 AM mhaze, I think you're reading it wrong – 'tis an environmentally friendly microphone!.....
» 22/03/2019 10:26:03 AM We may be on a trajectory to recession, but that's something that can probably be reversed.....
» 18/03/2019 9:49:38 AM mhaze, 'Tis unclear from reading the thread, so again I ask you: exactly what quote are yo.....
» 16/03/2019 11:41:16 PM individual, >Just because you're not yet affected doesn't make things better for those .....
» 16/03/2019 10:57:38 PM Yuyutsu, >Could anything happen without or against God's will? Yes it could. God has g.....
» 16/03/2019 10:39:57 PM Yuyutsu, Why do you think prison is the worst punishment possible? What do you think a mo.....
» 16/03/2019 5:58:57 PM mhaze, You seem to be mistakenly assuming it's the same people making those objections. On.....
» 16/03/2019 5:51:26 PM Most of the blame lies with the shooter, of course, but those who radicalised him are also.....
» 16/03/2019 1:32:21 AM individual, >The constant raising of the Dollar will eventually morph it into a Rupiah .....
» 15/03/2019 11:20:51 AM mhaze, exactly what quote are you accusing ant of doctoring? Original and doctored versio.....
» 15/03/2019 11:10:43 AM It has been known for decades that temperature rise causes CO2 rise. That doesn't alter th.....
» 14/03/2019 9:49:10 PM Trying to paint Bill Shorten as an "extreme socialist" is laughable. So too is t.....
» 13/03/2019 12:59:12 PM individual, WTF do you think the effect of cutting wages would be on profits? ___________.....
» 13/03/2019 12:37:14 PM One thing that smells fishy is the claim of PTSD. That's usually the result of seeing peop.....
» 11/03/2019 10:49:48 AM JBowyer, If, as you think, the recession has already started, now's the ideal time for a n.....
» 11/03/2019 2:02:00 AM Alan B., Graphene ever powering busways is unlikely IMO. Without a common core, induction .....
» 9/03/2019 2:57:27 PM Foxy, Telstra's headquarters are in the Australia. Telstra's call centres are in the Phill.....
» 8/03/2019 6:25:49 PM Alan B., You're wrong. Alan Davies writes about all sorts of urban and transport issues in.....
» 8/03/2019 12:16:50 PM Hasbeen, >There was Japanese research about 3 years ago that found that any increase in.....
» 7/03/2019 10:31:57 AM This s the clearest explanation yet of how sunspot activity affects the climate on Earth, .....
» 7/03/2019 12:55:27 AM Raycom, If you'd bothered to check the comments of that article you linked to, you'd see t.....
» 6/03/2019 3:01:33 PM JBowyer, Of course you're fed up with being told things that contradict your delusions. Bu.....
» 6/03/2019 12:40:18 AM Peter Lang, You need to understand cost benefit analysis is heavily dependent on assumptio.....
» 5/03/2019 8:50:10 PM Belly, If there's a worldwide recession, the government of the day is still to blame for g.....
» 5/03/2019 3:08:54 PM Belly, >It will be the day super Conservatives confront the truth, even true Liberals d.....
» 2/03/2019 2:00:45 AM ttbn, Any politician who expect unquestioning obedience is in for a rude shock at the next.....
» 28/02/2019 10:26:30 AM Pell's political views had nothing to do with it. He was found guilty because a jury belie.....
» 24/02/2019 9:41:41 PM mhaze, 1. No, the commercial decision to close Hazelwood was not based on government bias......
» 22/02/2019 6:22:36 PM mhaze, Your comprehension, both of the original article and of the errors I mentioned, is .....
» 22/02/2019 12:33:11 PM Very poorly researched article, with significant factual errors. For a start, it was Engie.....
» 21/02/2019 1:57:52 AM Arthur Chrenkoff's article is at http://thedailychrenk.com/2019/02/19/socialism-millennial.....
» 19/02/2019 10:32:54 AM >Stamp out leftist mentality & you stamp out the bulk of problems plaguing our world ! .....
» 19/02/2019 1:19:26 AM individual, Were national service reintroduced, the number of young people tripping around.....
» 18/02/2019 3:26:35 PM 'Tis a shame the valid points John Avery makes are being obscured by his ignorant claims! .....
» 14/02/2019 11:46:24 PM Fester, I think I see the source of the discrepancy: you're contriving the need for a cons.....
» 14/02/2019 1:50:37 PM Paul1405 The main purpose of the monotheistic religions is to know and love God. Without m.....
» 14/02/2019 10:42:27 AM Individual, What other point are you referring to? Extreme optimism? It may have escaped y.....
» 14/02/2019 10:23:33 AM Fester, >That is 100 CSIRO reactors using 100 times the quantity of hydrogen >as one.....
» 14/02/2019 2:28:18 AM Fester, In terms of refusing to let facts cloud their ideology, the right tend to be even .....
» 13/02/2019 12:51:10 AM runner, >no Aidan just not stupid enough to deny the tremendous improvements in life t.....
» 13/02/2019 12:48:45 AM ALTRAV, I don't deny the many outages and failures, but I recognise that, in my state at l.....
» 12/02/2019 4:26:29 PM Alan B., For oil producers, lower oil prices can stagnate economic growth. They were certa.....
» 12/02/2019 3:14:51 PM runner, >really Aiden. And where may I find my quote This thread, Saturday, 9 February .....
» 12/02/2019 3:14:05 PM ALTRAV, Tell me how you think history proves me wrong, and I'll tell you the false assumpt.....
» 12/02/2019 12:52:17 PM Fester, I'm sure Shorten wouldn't be averse to anyone modifying the Haber process to make .....
» 12/02/2019 10:41:56 AM ALTRAV, Your argument is illogical. Relying on a hundred sources makes the network far mor.....
» 12/02/2019 2:14:35 AM Fester, My rejection of radicalism is not new, so it should be too mundane to b worthy of .....
» 11/02/2019 11:08:25 AM Fester, An ammonia plant using the hater process is always inefficient! Considering the en.....
» 10/02/2019 2:38:38 PM Josephus, >If the Greens had their way farming would cease, cows and humans murdered to.....
» 9/02/2019 4:46:49 PM I've heard the idea before, and I can tell you it will never happen and it wouldn't work a.....
» 9/02/2019 3:47:47 PM Not_Now.Soon, >I didn't see in the article anything about the left or the right. Then y.....
» 9/02/2019 2:11:22 PM ttbn, >You called me simple minded and an idiot for no reason other than I don't fall f.....
» 9/02/2019 1:07:44 AM >Tell me you think that is fair >The will of over 80 percent of voters can be over t.....
» 8/02/2019 11:15:01 PM ttbn, >More lies. No, just more opinions based on your responses to my posts where you .....
» 8/02/2019 9:47:11 PM runner, > Are you on the renewable train Aiden? What does that even mean? I you're aski.....
» 8/02/2019 5:12:33 PM ALTRAV (continued) >and unless you can say that your research has shown them to be sain.....
» 8/02/2019 4:43:51 PM no, ttbn, I'm telling the truth. It's just that you're too feeble minded to comprehend th.....
» 8/02/2019 4:30:11 PM ALTRAV >What I won't hear of is this family being anything but evil. Exactly! You want .....
» 8/02/2019 2:00:44 PM CO2 has a lot to do with warming, and there's no credible alternative hypothesis to explai.....
» 8/02/2019 11:46:09 AM WTF did you expect? Of course decreasing the rate at which we INCREASE atmospheric concent.....
» 8/02/2019 10:15:59 AM Not_Now.Soon, >What does Trump have to do with postmodernism His disregard for truth in.....
» 7/02/2019 10:02:55 PM ALTRAV, The Rothschilds were a powerful force once, but events have moved on. It's a big f.....
» 6/02/2019 6:06:47 PM Belly, >First past the post CAN NOT BE ANY DIFFERENT than one vote one value It can and.....
» 6/02/2019 3:07:30 PM Wow, Hasbeen, it looks like you've been busy building strawmen! Whether the Middle Ages r.....
» 6/02/2019 12:14:22 PM o sung wu, >Heavy Industry would need to find better and more efficient ways to obtain .....
» 6/02/2019 1:55:10 AM Fester, If you think getting reliable energy from solar and wind would bankrupt the nation.....
» 6/02/2019 1:28:33 AM o sung wu, As the article notes, the reliability of newer (HELE) coal was even lower. As .....
» 5/02/2019 4:00:52 PM individual, NOBODY is claiming there is global cooling. 'Twas a hypothesis that got reject.....
» 5/02/2019 11:38:00 AM o sung wu, You are wrongly assuming coal fired power to be reliable. I refer you to: http:.....
» 4/02/2019 4:15:50 PM Hasbeen, Your question contains a false assumption: that power prices rising to the maximu.....
» 4/02/2019 2:44:24 PM ttbn, >We have a grim choice at the the next election; we have 2 major parties running;.....
» 4/02/2019 2:37:12 PM Meanwhile back in the real world, cheap reliable power is essential, and renewables are th.....
» 31/01/2019 12:29:30 AM JBowyer and ttbn, So let me get this straight: you saw a correlation between renewable ene.....
» 30/01/2019 2:22:25 PM JBowyer, I unironically ask: what sarcasm? I very rarely use sarcasm on the internet, and .....
» 30/01/2019 2:21:48 PM ttbn, Notice that commentator didn't give Germany as an example? I make no apologies for .....
» 30/01/2019 1:03:49 AM Touched a nerve have I, Hasbeen? FWIW I've never been a smoker. Am I right in thinking yo.....
» 30/01/2019 12:58:55 AM ttbn, No matter how much you and the neocons' useful idiot try to blame renewables, the fa.....
» 29/01/2019 10:05:34 AM What was the date before 1988? __________________________________________________________.....
» 29/01/2019 9:51:55 AM We are not doing the same thing at all. Germany is replacing nuclear with renewables; Aust.....
» 29/01/2019 1:18:52 AM Hasbeen, It sounds like you've been snorting the fairy dust again :-) I never ever implie.....
» 28/01/2019 10:23:13 AM Bazz, > Aiden I am well aware that is Bill Shorten's view. But you wrongly thought it w.....
» 28/01/2019 1:37:13 AM BILL SHORTEN IS CORRECT! From an energy consumer's viewpoint, all energy carriers are sou.....
» 27/01/2019 2:22:11 PM Obviously her actions were abominable. But so too is this thread title. This is nothing to.....
» 17/01/2019 3:49:44 PM Is Mise (and everyone else who's too lazy to look it up themselves) http://en.wikipedia.or.....
» 17/01/2019 10:58:18 AM Josehus, that's a very selective view of him. Have you seen his Wikipedia page?.....
» 17/01/2019 10:32:12 AM ttbn, >No immigrants of any kind have a right to try altering the country that has (oft.....
» 17/01/2019 2:13:03 AM mhaze, >No matter where you live, what you want, how you hope it'll turn out, its gunna.....
» 16/01/2019 2:10:59 AM ttbn, Considering your figure of "four times that of the locals" is much higher .....
» 16/01/2019 1:51:21 AM Thanks Graham, So it's as I concluded: they're not actually planning a robot tax; they're .....
» 15/01/2019 10:54:31 PM The southern section of the GAB is likely to remain as dry as before, if not dryer. But th.....
» 15/01/2019 1:58:28 PM Josephus, >It might take 100 years instead of the 2050 prediction for Britain to be maj.....
» 15/01/2019 10:55:05 AM GrahamY, When you look at Husic's response, I think it's rather unfair calling it a ".....
» 15/01/2019 1:06:44 AM individual, Not significantly. To create rain you not only need water vapour in the air, b.....
» 14/01/2019 8:51:57 PM >Will this increase in heat cause increasing evaporation & cause more precipitation ? Y.....
» 14/01/2019 1:53:32 PM This looked very much like fake news, as none of the other news sites had any mention of i.....
» 14/01/2019 12:56:18 PM I think that's checkmate! ________________________________ ttbn, I can't give you any st.....
» 13/01/2019 10:35:09 PM Leo Lane, >Aidan, I did not think you would fall for the fraud. Yes you did! You've fa.....
» 13/01/2019 5:24:05 PM Bazz, No, the objective is not to do less, but to do things in a more environmentally frie.....
» 13/01/2019 1:50:13 PM The whole basis of this article is wrong. It ignores the most important facts; • The obser.....
» 13/01/2019 11:14:57 AM ALTRAV, Snow is indeed low density, as it has lots of air in it. But apply pressure and it.....
» 13/01/2019 1:07:38 AM ALTRAV, The ice sheets are very thick. If they all melted, it really would be enough to ca.....
» 10/01/2019 10:06:57 PM sara242, The sum "1+1=1" is never right. We can make it right by multiplying eac.....
» 10/01/2019 12:43:26 PM sara242, Repeating your refuted claims doesn't make them true. They are not valid and neve.....
» 10/01/2019 12:28:58 PM ttbn, That raises a much bigger question: WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? Jesus responded by helping.....
» 10/01/2019 10:13:46 AM Shadow, > Perhaps you would care to back up your sweeping statements. I refer you to my.....
» 10/01/2019 2:11:06 AM JBowyer, I am merely telling you my understanding of the situation, as you requested on Tu.....
» 9/01/2019 5:23:04 PM JBowyer, > the Chief Scientist actually admitted he had got diesel completely wrong and.....
» 9/01/2019 4:51:43 PM Shadow, Of course that's the point GY's trying to make. But it's a point based on flawed c.....
» 9/01/2019 4:20:29 PM JBowyer, Regarding the UK's chief scientist,you shouldn't declare someone guilty without .....
» 9/01/2019 1:50:47 AM JBowyer, Your claim about the money was baseless, and the facts showed the exact opposite......
» 9/01/2019 1:25:04 AM Armchair, >How come were not all gasping for air then... Lol Because there has not been.....
» 8/01/2019 11:19:22 PM runner, That's a strawman. The climate scientists never predicted Europe would cease to ex.....
» 8/01/2019 1:43:39 PM JBowyer, The CSIRO told the truth on climate change, and it resulted in a large cut to the.....
» 8/01/2019 1:27:40 PM ALTRAV, The water for a 70m sea level rise would come from the ice in Greenland and Antarc.....
» 8/01/2019 9:30:18 AM david f, >In a country where no one is discriminated against for their ethnicity, relig.....
» 7/01/2019 3:25:34 PM sara242, Restating what the paper purports to prove, and falsely claiming the paper proves.....
» 7/01/2019 2:08:42 PM I do wonder how long it will be before the Federal Nats dare to follow their SA counterpar.....
» 7/01/2019 1:40:22 AM wow, thnkabit, I must congratulate you – your obfuscation skills are truly astounding! Ne.....
» 6/01/2019 2:07:42 AM thinkabit, > This is not a provable! (This is what is known as Godel's First Incomplete.....
» 4/01/2019 3:59:23 PM >0.999... is non finite it cannot be counted-it has no end Wrong! Being non countable d.....
» 4/01/2019 2:45:06 PM >I think the same is also likely to be true for wind turbines. Physics and budgets are .....
» 4/01/2019 12:41:34 PM Canem, >A lower dollar means increased cost of international debt, True but largely irr.....
» 4/01/2019 11:50:16 AM individual, > What if Labor gets in here when the rest of the world's turning conservat.....
» 4/01/2019 9:52:23 AM It may be controversial among Arts students, but mathematicians would be united in declari.....
» 4/01/2019 1:48:43 AM mhaze (continued) >Aidan, I get that you and your ilk want to avoid the discipline of n.....
» 4/01/2019 1:48:19 AM Hasbeen, Exports do not need to be centrally planned! We can do what we're good at and exp.....
» 3/01/2019 10:57:10 AM mhaze >Our collapse will look quite different. We won't collapse at all. Even if the ma.....
» 3/01/2019 1:55:44 AM ttbn (continued) 5. Whether there is something cruel about detaining people who've attempt.....
» 3/01/2019 1:30:45 AM ttbn, 1. Although false dichotomies can be used to force people into extreme positions, th.....
» 2/01/2019 4:19:48 PM Bazz, Lightning happens. Railway signalling systems should be designed to withstand (or at.....
» 2/01/2019 4:06:09 PM ttbn, Rightwing commentators like Peter Smith are fond of false dichotomies. But in realit.....
» 2/01/2019 2:04:25 PM The main difference between the Left and Right is that the Left want the government to hel.....
» 2/01/2019 1:12:47 PM I was surprised to see $2166m to Russia on that list, so I followed the link to find out w.....
» 1/01/2019 11:24:25 PM >Sounds like another big government globalisation strategy. No, nothing to do with glob.....
» 1/01/2019 2:50:52 PM Loudmouth, Venezuela's socialists have certainly created a cronyism problem, but AIUI that.....
» 1/01/2019 1:55:53 PM mhaze, >Not just the Venezuelan communists...all communists. I didn't say communists, .....
» 1/01/2019 12:54:05 AM david f, The trouble with that argument is that there were also a very large number of peo.....
» 31/12/2018 3:10:38 PM Yes and yes. They also seem to fail to comprehend that economic and political philosophie.....
» 31/12/2018 2:26:42 PM individual, >This thread's debate should about finding ideas & solutions for the future.....
» 30/12/2018 10:16:53 PM individual, >Fast forward to 2018 & we have unlimited debt No we don't! >& being in.....
» 30/12/2018 9:49:56 PM individual, >Will reading meteorology and ecology divert much needed freshwater inland .....
» 30/12/2018 2:17:24 PM Alan B., Why do you feel the need to post lies about my position? I have NEVER EVER advoc.....
» 30/12/2018 10:57:00 AM I had roast turkey for Christmas, followed by Vienetta. Since then, because of the hot we.....
» 30/12/2018 1:25:14 AM Individual, I think you might be answering the wrong question. I didn't ask you why you we.....
» 29/12/2018 11:37:53 PM individual, Hitting anyone's nerve would be tiring when it always rebounds on you. So rath.....
» 29/12/2018 10:25:28 AM individual, >Isn't it about time the word Growth is removed from economic management ? .....
» 29/12/2018 10:05:26 AM >Those who need that explained. Then it's as I thought: it's showed you nothing of the .....
» 28/12/2018 11:18:00 PM individual,, >threads like this one expose those who don't ask what they can do for the.....
» 28/12/2018 11:11:01 PM ttbn, Countries have a choice: they can go for growth or they can try to balance the budge.....
» 26/12/2018 6:16:38 PM Canem, Fresh water flows from the Great Dividing Range to the Gulf of Carpentaria. There .....
» 26/12/2018 12:34:11 PM individual (continued) >7; wildlife & a greening around a huge lake would be beneficia.....
» 26/12/2018 12:31:07 PM individual, >Are you one of those Academics ? You certainly debate like one ! Logically.....
» 26/12/2018 12:48:39 AM individual, "One thing it does show is that, flooding Lake Eyre would be beneficial a.....
» 25/12/2018 12:23:27 AM Hasbeen, Yes, the geological strata extend all the way under the Torres Strait. But water.....
» 24/12/2018 9:57:47 AM Saltpetre, Despite being pro free trade, I'm certainly not a neoliberal. Indeed I oppose n.....
» 24/12/2018 2:08:54 AM individual, >it seems that you're one of those who are more concerned about having to f.....
» 23/12/2018 10:01:37 PM individual, If it's any consolation, your type gave the nickname to the inhabitants of my .....
» 23/12/2018 6:35:37 PM Philip S, Peer review is for science, whereas the Bradfield Scheme is engineering (which u.....
» 23/12/2018 1:32:11 PM individual, The subtropical high persists even when Lake Eyre is full. However much you ex.....
» 23/12/2018 1:22:27 AM Hasbeen, Practically all of the water in the Great Artesian Basin comes from the Great Div.....
» 22/12/2018 2:04:38 PM individual, It's a lack of uplift, not a lack of evaporation, which is the cause of a lack.....
» 22/12/2018 9:25:55 AM Raycom, The reverse is the case - see http://reneweconomy.com.au/csiro-aemo-study-says-win.....
» 21/12/2018 9:50:56 PM individual, Flooding Lake Eyre with sea water would cost orders of magnitude more than you.....
» 21/12/2018 12:45:24 PM LEGO, Racists like you are usually considered lunatic fringe. Neocons are statist and soc.....
» 21/12/2018 11:24:00 AM With Trump in the White House, a boring year was the best we could have realistically hope.....
» 20/12/2018 11:16:00 AM Ponder, Privatised assets are sold off, not given away. _________________________________.....
» 20/12/2018 10:50:18 AM Armchair, >If people only knew what a complete slush fund and crime cartel the >Clin.....
» 20/12/2018 10:28:22 AM >Surely as the needed energy input to extract the resource rises the cost rises in lock.....
» 20/12/2018 12:15:04 AM plantagenet, Your cynicism seems to have extended into irrationality. Anglicanism isn't th.....
» 19/12/2018 9:08:12 PM Bazz, BTW forget EROEI - it's far less significant than you think. What counts is money re.....
» 19/12/2018 8:58:20 PM Hasbeen, "if you want to include hydro in your renewable, you had better give us an i.....
» 19/12/2018 12:58:59 PM JBowyer, >simple challenge. Why if renewable solar and wind are cheaper than coal has m.....
» 19/12/2018 10:15:16 AM Unlike you, Hasbeen, poms think rights are important......
» 19/12/2018 12:12:25 AM ALTRAV, Welcome to the thread. I'm glad you've shared your concerns, as there's quite a lo.....
» 17/12/2018 10:17:14 PM Just noticed my silly typo. Of course I meant "There is no insurmountable obstacle to.....
» 17/12/2018 10:15:13 PM Bazz, Building new renewable power infrastructure is cheaper than refurbishing fossil fuel.....
» 17/12/2018 7:47:11 PM ttbn (continued) >Rather than call other people's posts stupid, he needs to look in the.....
» 17/12/2018 3:30:14 PM ttbn, >So why don't they stop subsidising renewables? As (I hope) you know by now, I ha.....
» 17/12/2018 11:13:08 AM Belly, >your view ANY WORLD GOVERNMENT will actively seek 100 percent renewables is fan.....
» 17/12/2018 11:01:42 AM Bazz, I think a few such studies have been done, but there are limits as to what central p.....
» 10/12/2018 2:10:00 PM Hasbeen, What planet do you think you live on? I'm quite puzzled because not only did I no.....
» 10/12/2018 2:01:50 PM Philip S, >It is evident you lack the capacity for an intelligent discussion. That inte.....
» 10/12/2018 1:05:41 AM Philip S, Why settle for disagreement? I'd highlighted some logical flaws you based your a.....
» 9/12/2018 1:42:52 AM Philip S, Yes it does. Even if it were true, your claim would not invalidate any of the re.....
» 8/12/2018 11:36:37 PM Philip S, >I would like to hear where these 25 million jobs will be created, what indus.....
» 8/12/2018 9:43:07 PM Hi Joe, >Thank goodness ! Now we can start slowly reducing the subsidies on renewable e.....
» 8/12/2018 5:44:12 PM Alan B., >Land management that includes annual burns, does a few things That much is tr.....
» 7/12/2018 10:30:43 PM Hi Joe, From your post it is clear you're under the impression that electricity from renew.....
» 7/12/2018 12:04:28 PM The Adelaide S4A region is utterly ridiculous!* The statistics would be far more meaningfu.....
» 7/12/2018 9:51:42 AM Joe (Loudmouth), It's the anti renewables crowd who are off with the fairies. There were c.....
» 5/12/2018 2:53:29 PM Belly, For an alternative view with the optimism you wrongly thought I had, read http://th.....
» 5/12/2018 9:19:11 AM Belly, Do you mean http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/housing-slump-the-biggest-th.....
» 5/12/2018 12:42:58 AM Belly, >Aiden your post, its content, is purely optimistic Would I be correct in thinki.....
» 3/12/2018 12:49:52 PM Belly, >content is unaffected by grammar That's certainly not true - see http://www.ab.....
» 3/12/2018 9:40:05 AM Philip S, >Aidan - She has a different perspective than others, >if she provides the.....
» 3/12/2018 1:00:23 AM Philip S, It is those who make the extraordinary claims who should supply evidence. Foxy h.....
» 2/12/2018 10:47:07 PM Belly, >Printing more money is no answer once the gold standard ensured a base it no lo.....
» 2/12/2018 10:08:52 PM Alan B. and LEGO, It's not as simple as "private is better than public" or vice.....
» 1/12/2018 6:11:30 PM Armchair, China's economy is highly speculative. Indeed in some ways it's a bit like Austr.....
» 1/12/2018 3:01:00 PM Belly, I thought personal debt was what you were referring to from the start. Government d.....
» 30/11/2018 6:12:55 PM Canem, Whether or not conservatism is inherently authoritarian, the conservatives in our p.....
» 30/11/2018 5:10:40 PM Canem, I do advocate free trade, as there is more to gain from it than to lose. I'm not su.....
» 30/11/2018 1:57:45 PM Yuyutsu, The rule of law is not a cult; it's the best way we have of preventing violence......
» 30/11/2018 1:11:23 PM >have those lying feminist who accused Kavanaugh been put in prison yet? No, runner, be.....
» 30/11/2018 12:39:53 PM I've seen a lot of white South Africans here and they seem to fit in well. But so did both.....
» 30/11/2018 12:34:04 PM Canem, Australia's still at the stage of the economic cycle where there's too little consu.....
» 29/11/2018 11:43:33 PM mhaze, >Always? A touch of hyperbole there Aidan. The victory of ideology over facts. N.....
» 29/11/2018 5:18:18 PM Belly, Interest rates in America are set by the Federal Reserve (aka the Fed) to control i.....
» 29/11/2018 9:28:16 AM No there will not be a debt crisis. Interest rates don't just happen; they're set by the R.....
» 29/11/2018 12:23:27 AM >How could Climate Scientists have arrived at the conclusions they did when this import.....
» 28/11/2018 5:40:34 PM Reports of their death have been greatly exaggerated. Unless someone else manages to take .....
» 26/11/2018 5:14:59 PM Foxy, Turnbull's quit parliament and the party's lost his seat, so he really can't be rein.....
» 26/11/2018 5:04:01 PM ttbn, >How many centuries have to pass before people with a smidgen of >original inh.....
» 26/11/2018 4:57:52 PM Sacrificing privacy for the sake of someone else's life may e superficially attractive, bu.....
» 26/11/2018 1:46:15 PM Is Mise, It's an American thing that, thanks to the internet, has gone global. __________.....
» 26/11/2018 11:29:41 AM Foxy, Unfortunately Nick Xenophon has tweeted that he has no intention of returning to pol.....
» 25/11/2018 1:29:34 PM Does this have much in the way of federal implications? Or are Victorians now clear about .....
» 23/11/2018 8:09:20 AM Belly I did not accuse you of dishonesty or deception. I said the title was false, and it .....
» 22/11/2018 2:21:04 PM Belly, >Aiden nothing false about the title, Liking a group on Facebook does not amoun.....
» 22/11/2018 10:21:26 AM Belly, is the false thread title deliberate?.....
» 20/11/2018 8:24:42 PM Hasbeen, I did not specify "low cost housing" and did not consider it to be a pr.....
» 20/11/2018 6:27:16 PM ALTRAV, >One example to prove my point; after attempting to play down the need for an e.....
» 20/11/2018 4:29:23 PM Most low value work in metro areas is local; people tend not to commute far to it. Because.....
» 19/11/2018 12:35:22 AM Bazz, "You did not seem to realise that the immigration document has a policy stateme.....
» 18/11/2018 3:46:34 PM Bazz, Sorry I misunderstood you - I thought the thread's title was ironic. However taking.....
» 18/11/2018 12:21:21 AM Canem, >I don't know how Aiden calls himself Australian while being anti-nationalist. I.....
» 17/11/2018 5:59:28 PM Armchair, I, for one, think you're full of crap. So let's put it to the test: "In one.....
» 17/11/2018 1:58:01 PM Luciferase, >Labor's class-war misinformation campaign is clearly working a treat. It's.....
» 15/11/2018 7:35:55 PM Little troll, >The fact you claim it is for national interest does not necessarily make.....
» 15/11/2018 8:53:08 AM Philip S, >"Just out of interest who has given you the job of speaking on there be.....
» 14/11/2018 9:42:09 PM >Troll remark. No, a statement of fact. You've had ample opportunity to explain why yo.....
» 14/11/2018 9:21:37 PM Your claim is jus stupid, Bazz. Indonesia does not have the power of veto over our foreig.....
» 14/11/2018 6:30:16 PM Foxy, Majak Daw was charged with rape. He was subsequently tried and found NOT GUILTY. Bu.....
» 14/11/2018 5:46:56 PM Philip S, >You have outdone your ignorance here, Looks like you're having some pronoun .....
» 13/11/2018 5:15:28 PM Bazz, would you rather we ignore the effects of global warming when deciding what infrastr.....
» 13/11/2018 11:47:09 AM Philip S, Evidence would change my mind. But you appear to be baulking at the numbers desp.....
» 13/11/2018 9:49:06 AM thinkabit, "This statement is based on a very flawed assumption, specifically it assu.....
» 13/11/2018 9:33:47 AM It looks like the purpose of this is to make refugees less likely to commit crimes, and to.....
» 13/11/2018 9:21:17 AM Why do you think that's a recipe for disaster?.....
» 12/11/2018 12:40:36 PM If politicians cared more about the real economy than the size of the deficit/surplus then.....
» 12/11/2018 12:43:31 AM ALTRAV, I suggest you direct your criticism to someone else. My reply to Hasbeen related t.....
» 11/11/2018 9:47:05 PM mhaze, >No that's being below the poverty line. That's what "relative poverty".....
» 11/11/2018 7:48:13 PM At what again, Hasbeen? >It takes much more energy & materials to gather, sort, assemb.....
» 11/11/2018 4:44:06 PM Alan B., > Imagine Adian, Close - at least you've got the letters right! >how much.....
» 11/11/2018 12:43:12 AM mhaze, Regarding the rest of your Wednesday post: [distrust of capitalism] Yes, I acknowl.....
» 10/11/2018 9:31:22 PM The shortcomings of GDP are exaggerated by its detractors. GDP is a measure of economic a.....
» 9/11/2018 9:13:30 AM Those who take offence at the consequences of their own actions deserve to be insulted. Me.....
» 7/11/2018 5:16:43 PM Thanks Taswegian. __________________________________________ nick, Indonesia already get.....
» 7/11/2018 5:06:49 PM mhaze >I know you have this fetish that devaluations can fix every governmental and pol.....
» 7/11/2018 1:49:40 PM plantagenet Is that a troll? As David has already noted, hydrogen only produces water when.....
» 7/11/2018 1:45:06 PM And once again, Geoff writes an article about something he knows very little about. When .....
» 6/11/2018 10:55:52 AM >From 1940 to almost 1980 the global temperature went down The cooling trend over this.....
» 6/11/2018 10:03:20 AM Belly, who exactly are you referring to? Because if it's who I think it is, the reason she.....
» 6/11/2018 1:33:59 AM mhaze (continued) In 20th century Venezuela, the government was deeply reliant on debt. If.....
» 6/11/2018 1:31:31 AM mhaze, When you say the Left is distrustful of capitalism, you should be a bit clearer on .....
» 4/11/2018 10:03:50 PM individual, Regarding your question on Thursday, IIRC large trade surpluses occurred under.....
» 4/11/2018 3:13:52 PM mhaze (continued_ You're partly right about Aboriginal poverty, but one of the things tha.....
» 4/11/2018 3:04:37 PM mhaze, The abbreviation tl;dr is used in two completely different contexts. An indication .....
» 1/11/2018 10:20:15 PM Dear david f, Judge Kavanaugh claimed to have been a virgin at the time, so it would not .....
» 1/11/2018 3:38:42 PM No, the idiot of the week is the one who started this thread. Though I don't agree with D.....
» 30/10/2018 6:34:49 PM ttbn, >Well, pardon me for for ‘showing up’ on a thread I actually started! Actually I.....
» 30/10/2018 3:02:01 PM ttbn, I'm quite surprised you've shown up again on this thread after I exposed the lies yo.....
» 30/10/2018 12:42:14 PM individual, Many have calculated it before, and the answer is very small. You should be ab.....
» 29/10/2018 5:16:01 PM Hasbeen, you're the one on the raw prawn. There's lots of storage available. We have pumpe.....
» 29/10/2018 4:06:58 PM Alan Bl, Forget coal - that's too expensive now. The real competitor is solar power. Twen.....
» 29/10/2018 3:49:14 PM They measure with satellites, Joe......
» 29/10/2018 9:23:01 AM The time to go nuclear should have been twenty years ago. I think it's too late now. By th.....
» 28/10/2018 1:09:15 AM Philip S, He apparently made the claim on Thursday - see http://www.9news.com.au/2018/10/2.....
» 27/10/2018 10:06:21 PM runner, It may surprise you to earn that crossing borders does not destroy them......
» 27/10/2018 8:14:42 PM Hasbeen, >that is the whole point, they don't want to go anywhere where they will have .....
» 27/10/2018 5:47:31 PM Just think how much better our economy would be if we allowed them to work rather than spe.....
» 27/10/2018 5:43:29 PM ttbn, "According to Essential polling, only 7% of Australians are interested in the v.....
» 26/10/2018 12:36:08 PM >our leaders are afraid to differ, and proceed, lemming-like, to plan for the suicide o.....
» 25/10/2018 10:42:36 AM Belly, >Capitalism with all its faults drives us, no other system can. If the faults o.....
» 25/10/2018 10:22:15 AM Hi Joe, You assert: "After all, affirmative action 'for' Indigenous people effectivel.....
» 24/10/2018 9:31:44 PM ateday We could easily sustain a much higher population than we now have. But if we contin.....
» 24/10/2018 3:57:05 PM Communists are still around - see http://www.cpa.org.au But I think the younger generation.....
» 22/10/2018 2:07:54 PM To those who yearn for a return to the huge domestic manufacturing sector of half a centur.....
» 18/10/2018 2:09:29 AM Philip S, I notice that all but one of the people in the first response you posted WERE NO.....
» 18/10/2018 1:32:40 AM I had hoped the Democrats would be a Third Force, and it was sad to see what they deterior.....
» 17/10/2018 9:55:46 PM Philip S, Nobody can give a single answer for every wrong prediction. However I can give y.....
» 17/10/2018 6:41:12 PM A much more serious problem than climate events so far is that despite all the evidence, r.....
» 16/10/2018 3:04:14 PM It looks very much like Andrew Russell started with an ideologically based conclusion and .....
» 16/10/2018 12:24:11 PM diver - You appear to be saying you think Hewson should put party before country - or poss.....
» 13/10/2018 8:54:35 PM Struth, the ignoramuses are really out in force tonight! Criticising the ABC for a claim i.....
» 11/10/2018 11:37:11 AM Alan B., Research reactors are much cheaper and simpler than nuclear power stations. See h.....
» 11/10/2018 2:17:46 AM Luciferase, Another disingenuous answer from you! Storage has been part of our energy mix .....
» 10/10/2018 7:51:34 PM Luciferase (continued) "Not sure the new Lib gov't there is any better, now to subsid.....
» 10/10/2018 6:23:43 PM Luciferase, "One need not be bright to see that FF backup infrastructure must be of t.....
» 10/10/2018 5:17:51 PM Alan B., I couldn't find any video of that title there. But there are plenty of sources th.....
» 10/10/2018 2:12:38 PM I was going to post a link to the song "I Hate Summer" by the Ken Noath Ockerstr.....
» 10/10/2018 1:45:47 PM Alan B., WTF are you on about? There is no nuclear power in Iceland! Though molten salt r.....
» 10/10/2018 11:24:44 AM ttbn, The size of the country rarely matters to those living in the suburbs. How many days.....
» 10/10/2018 11:13:04 AM VK3AUU, Blackouts used to be a common occurrence. Now they're rare. We're getting more sto.....
» 9/10/2018 6:08:06 PM SteeleRedux, "Of course the Sydney Opera House should not be used as a commercial bil.....
» 9/10/2018 10:36:47 AM The current situation of sustainable and unsustainable options is itself not sustainable. .....
» 8/10/2018 1:20:18 AM Luciferase, The main use of LCOE figures seems to be to make deceptive claims about the co.....
» 6/10/2018 10:29:51 PM >Let him get out of dry dock first then judge his seamanship. To get out of drydock, on.....
» 5/10/2018 12:10:20 PM "The real danger for China is that if employment is affected, the Chinese government .....
» 5/10/2018 1:53:54 AM individual, >You don't really mean that do you ? Are you trying to tell us you doubt t.....
» 4/10/2018 2:21:58 AM Luciferase, The connection to NSW certainly matters, it will help ensure the state's north.....
» 3/10/2018 7:22:49 PM individual (continued) >Talking about liars, everyone of our past PMs' promised things.....
» 3/10/2018 7:21:49 PM individual, >Exposed by worse liars you mean ? No I don't. Though the American media ar.....
» 3/10/2018 12:30:13 PM individual, >That's because the rest of the world is too far behind draining its swamps.....
» 2/10/2018 7:38:22 PM OzSpen, That's not applicable in Tasmania, which sources most of its power from hydro even.....
» 2/10/2018 7:05:06 PM Taswegian, So you're expecting sustained high pressure conditions? It sounds like you coul.....
» 2/10/2018 1:25:43 PM There seems to be a major deficiency in Graham Young's comprehension here. He criticises t.....
» 1/10/2018 3:49:56 PM Politicians, and to a lesser extent people in general, whether progressive or conservative.....
» 1/10/2018 3:39:46 PM Thanks nick. I think I see what's happened: ttbn's noticed a symbol on Figure 40 (a diagr.....
» 1/10/2018 12:05:32 PM Does anyone have a link to what Tim Flannery actually said? Considering the previous false.....
» 30/09/2018 12:37:29 PM runner, "the mainstream in America do injustice to every woman who has been sexually .....
» 27/09/2018 1:59:33 AM Ian McClintock, Geoff's case may be superficially compelling, but think about it a bit mor.....
» 20/09/2018 3:56:41 AM LEGO, I notice again you've failed to answer the question, so again I ask: do you consider.....
» 18/09/2018 11:28:51 AM Not as idiotic as you, runner! It's the consumers, not the sellers, who would get their dr.....
» 18/09/2018 2:46:00 AM LEGO, I am disappointed that you've so far failed to answer the question: do you consider .....
» 17/09/2018 2:39:28 PM LEGO, The problem is you're assuming the entire Left to be either dumb or devious - and of.....
» 17/09/2018 2:09:59 AM LEGO (continued) California's financial strife is nothing to do with "the most produc.....
» 17/09/2018 2:07:55 AM LEGO, >But it is the Left which has always used class division, Only insofar as they tr.....
» 13/09/2018 3:07:03 AM LEGO, If you look at the reality rather than the spin, you'll find things are rather diffe.....
» 12/09/2018 11:53:54 AM Alan B., >Alan Davies Just keeps putting the same failed critique up again and again. .....
» 11/09/2018 11:02:12 AM mox, > one factor is more company tax on multinationals likely to be paid in Australia .....
» 10/09/2018 11:38:20 PM mox, What you think is obvious is actually completely wrong. Those who oppose these tax c.....
» 10/09/2018 11:04:27 PM You seem to be having a bit of pronoun trouble there, Bazz!.....
» 10/09/2018 3:28:38 PM Bazz, "One other factor many people advocating wind & solar at high percentage do not.....
» 10/09/2018 1:22:30 PM "The Coalition government's current proposal to slash Australia's corporate tax rate .....
» 9/09/2018 1:58:45 AM Bazz, Your obsession with EROEI is stupid. The arbitrary threshold of 7 holds no actual si.....
» 7/09/2018 1:45:05 PM ttbn, Unlike Vale Point, SA's coal fired power stations were economically marginal, and th.....
» 7/09/2018 10:24:07 AM ALTRAV, By all means question the science - but don't ignore the answers! And don't assume.....
» 7/09/2018 2:47:59 AM Luciferase, Yes, you're no hero. But you assume SMRs to be heroic. It's possible everythin.....
» 6/09/2018 5:22:11 PM The first thing they should do is make bus maps available (and displayed at stops) so peop.....
» 6/09/2018 5:18:06 PM Luciferase, "Keep believing in the Storage Fairy..." That sums up your arroganc.....
» 6/09/2018 3:11:20 AM Luciferase, Your first link is just another example of GIGO. We can see it's possible to c.....
» 5/09/2018 11:48:12 PM ttbn, Firstly, what's your source? Secondly, are you absolutely sure it includes all renew.....
» 5/09/2018 10:57:30 PM Hasbeen, So let me get this straight: not only are you blind to the enormous changes (most.....
» 5/09/2018 1:19:35 AM Hasbeen, that's a non sequiter. Whether Australia Post utilises rail says very little abou.....
» 4/09/2018 6:59:24 PM Luciferase, It may have escaped your attention, but Australia is not in the SCS. I didn't.....
» 4/09/2018 4:30:58 PM Philip S, I'm not a submarine expert, so I'll leave the explanations of why to others. But.....
» 4/09/2018 4:04:40 PM Alan B., If there's one thing it will never be this century, it's a complete circle, as th.....
» 4/09/2018 12:13:50 PM Nuclear subs may have all those strengths, but they have one major weakness: the inability.....
» 4/09/2018 11:40:09 AM Bazz, You are correct about tensioning rails, but there's a limit to how much that can be .....
» 3/09/2018 6:39:04 PM Footage would help identify the suspects so that they can be charged with manslaughter (an.....
» 3/09/2018 6:31:09 PM Alien B., My conclusion that you thought Alan was anti-rail was based on your statement th.....
» 3/09/2018 3:30:28 PM Alan B., You seem to have based your opinion on the false assumption that Alan Davies is a.....
» 2/09/2018 3:33:49 PM >Even though Blind Freddy could see that Turnbull’s reduction of Abbott’s healthy major.....
» 2/09/2018 12:42:16 PM It seems even worse here in SA, as it's a footyless September... ...except that it isn't!.....
» 1/09/2018 10:57:43 AM individual, >There's no point in debating real problems with people who benefit from t.....
» 31/08/2018 9:49:29 PM Belly, Surely putting her on trial requires her to be defended? _________________________.....
» 29/08/2018 2:32:36 PM Canem, >To call them migrants is to underestimate the significance of the contribution .....
» 29/08/2018 2:22:19 PM Are you larping as an idiot, Bazz, or are you really that uninformed? CUTTING EMISSIONS D.....
» 29/08/2018 3:39:37 AM individual, ISTR the vanadium battery was an Aussie invention. But vanadium is expensive. .....
» 29/08/2018 2:08:14 AM runner's question highlights a misunderstanding among creationists: they think scientists .....
» 29/08/2018 12:45:53 AM Is Mise, > she cannot be a Muslim and a fair dinkum Australian as well. Why not?.....
» 28/08/2018 3:14:21 AM Luciferase, I hope you're right about modular nuclear, but I'm not counting my chickens. .....
» 27/08/2018 2:24:01 PM Paul1405, Why would the ALP need 26 seats but the LNP only 21? __________________________.....
» 26/08/2018 6:31:27 PM Hasbeen, Stress is a contributory cause of stomach ulcers. I presume by now everyone knows.....
» 26/08/2018 12:38:35 PM >Lets agree global warming is taking place all over the planet, except in Hassie's back.....
» 25/08/2018 7:26:12 PM Hasbeen, What was this Japanese research paper 4 years ago? What was this German and Swedi.....
» 25/08/2018 6:23:56 PM It is disappointing that Graham has failed to respond to my criticism. What I posted was j.....
» 24/08/2018 2:01:12 PM ttbn, What is it you you mean by "socialism"?.....
» 24/08/2018 11:44:45 AM Though unfettered democracy would be problematic, that's not what we have - we have the ru.....
» 24/08/2018 11:32:43 AM No, we should keep stepping forward. Keep getting more efficient and achieve things that p.....
» 23/08/2018 2:40:15 PM Foxy, >Whatever happened to the once great Party of Sir Robert Menzies? It split betwee.....
» 23/08/2018 2:59:47 AM Hasbeen, Temperature records are often being broken. Those for high temperatures are being.....
» 23/08/2018 2:40:37 AM individual, You assume a large void to be left, but that is not usually the case for three.....
» 23/08/2018 1:54:59 AM Viv Forbes, You started off well, but soon degraded into a lazy article full of fallacies .....
» 22/08/2018 6:30:07 PM Josephus, Your question is incoherent, so if you want a proper answer then you'll have to .....
» 22/08/2018 1:46:11 AM runner, Do you really think Trump will save the lives of millions of helpless unborn? If s.....
» 21/08/2018 5:19:56 PM Shadow, When I said there was no risk, I was referring to the owner of the poles and wires.....
» 20/08/2018 5:00:22 PM Shadow, 1.5% is acceptable rate of return when there's no risk whatsoever. Provision for v.....
» 18/08/2018 9:51:03 PM Sorry, that's just stupid! Even if the essentials are all free, there are always going to.....
» 17/08/2018 2:43:55 PM Graham Young, Your own work is in dire need of some fact checking, as many of your claims .....
» 16/08/2018 12:37:33 PM Canem, China seems to be trying to replace the indigenous Tibetan culture with another. AI.....
» 16/08/2018 11:52:09 AM >'Has anyone in the "high immigration" tent perhaps wondered whether the curr.....
» 15/08/2018 6:55:05 PM runner > The Man I follow allows me to think So why don't you start thinking instead of.....
» 15/08/2018 3:56:42 PM This thread is utterly ridiculous, as is the letter that inspired it! High energy costs c.....
» 14/08/2018 4:17:54 PM runner, I know this may come as a surprise to you, but most lefties don't conform to the s.....
» 9/08/2018 1:30:42 PM Alan B., I don't speak Mandarin and nor do I need to. Chinese territorial ambitions are li.....
» 8/08/2018 2:03:39 PM ttbn, "The Commonwealth Government has empowered and funded ASIC to EMBED ASIC OFFICE.....
» 8/08/2018 1:52:57 PM ttbn, I agree with your first paragraph. However economic trouble is far from certain. One.....
» 7/08/2018 12:46:14 PM rache, >The loss of $4.5billion gambling on foreign exchange rates. I don't think I kne.....
» 7/08/2018 12:29:21 PM What "fake abc news", runner? Have you fallen for Trump's lies as well as those.....
» 7/08/2018 11:22:11 AM ttbn, Inability to use, or even afford, the latest equipment does not make people obsolete.....
» 7/08/2018 10:55:29 AM ttbn, Australia is nowhere near the second driest country. But as a continent, we are inde.....
» 6/08/2018 5:35:49 PM Luciferase, Do you even know what a strawman is? What I posted was not, and did not even r.....
» 5/08/2018 6:15:39 PM Back in 2010 (before the election) I thought Costello was a competent economic manager, un.....
» 4/08/2018 12:05:36 AM Firstly, Islam is not a monoculture at all. Obviously it has had a big influence on the cu.....
» 3/08/2018 3:50:01 PM Why do you want conservatism? And why do you think it would be attractive to voters?.....
» 3/08/2018 12:16:20 PM Bazz, It is the latter measure. There is a lot of disagreement about what the most appropr.....
» 3/08/2018 1:28:00 AM Individual - Even if that's true, which I very much doubt, it's a state problem which the .....
» 2/08/2018 2:00:39 PM (continued) 6. The biggest problem with education spending is that the Federal government.....
» 2/08/2018 1:41:32 PM Only in the final case do I agree with Brendan. Of the other seven: 1. The really big wast.....
» 2/08/2018 1:48:06 AM Luciferase, Apologies for the obvious typo! The huge five minute spot price fluctuations .....
» 1/08/2018 2:25:16 AM ALTRAV, It sounds like you want a civil war! http://youtu.be/akIHev3cb1E ________________.....
» 31/07/2018 10:43:15 AM Whether or not these “reforms are … designed to limit access to an ABN” it's a huge step i.....
» 30/07/2018 3:30:23 PM ALTRAV, I know what your point was, but I think you missed mine. Overthrowing is not a goo.....
» 29/07/2018 10:45:15 PM ttbn, If the Libs will sink without Tony Abbott as leader, they definitely won't survive w.....
» 29/07/2018 10:08:55 PM ALTRAV, Before taking a page out of China's history book, try reading the chapter! One lot.....
» 29/07/2018 6:45:37 PM As far as I can tell, this article relies on three errors: Firstly, although Geoff Carmody.....
» 27/07/2018 9:20:41 PM There's no shortage of things or people to do, ttbn. Some of those things are necessary; s.....
» 26/07/2018 5:33:46 PM Philip S, Although it would take someone on the minimum wage over thirty years to pay a hu.....
» 26/07/2018 11:08:18 AM Conservatism is not a particularly western value, and the east has long been more conserva.....
» 26/07/2018 10:24:55 AM I see that in an apparent effort to prevent his critics from exposing his errors, Geoff Ca.....
» 25/07/2018 1:21:13 PM Maybe because such actions are strictly forbidden by his religion? Or maybe because when .....
» 25/07/2018 2:58:20 AM Philip S, In what way do you think it proves my ignorance rather than yours? >What occ.....
» 24/07/2018 10:06:48 PM Philip S, Your "reasons why" are not genuine reasons; they're pathetic excuses! .....
» 24/07/2018 3:31:37 PM Shadow, Firstly, why do you think we should have to rely on foreign investment rather than.....
» 24/07/2018 3:21:54 PM individual, Removal of National Service was extremely positive for younger Australians, as.....
» 24/07/2018 2:44:20 AM Normally I'd presume posts like the above to be an attempt at irony. But considering some .....
» 23/07/2018 12:21:07 PM Banjo, Was the pay from fruit picking really tax free? Or is it just that people cheated o.....
» 23/07/2018 3:11:08 AM Shadow, >Labor once had reasonable economists and agreed that company and individual ta.....
» 20/07/2018 9:18:28 PM Foxy, Remember Trump's a compulsive liar, so we can't be sure he really did take Putin's w.....
» 20/07/2018 5:53:25 PM Philip S, That's what the bankers would have us believe, as less government oversight woul.....
» 20/07/2018 4:29:46 PM rache, It goes deeper than that. The reason for the severe oppression was the reformist Ts.....
» 20/07/2018 12:27:15 PM It's a false assumption that the optimum figure is a fixed percentage of GDP. That approac.....
» 19/07/2018 5:26:55 PM Luciferase, This is not about relinquishing control over nature; it's about recognising th.....
» 19/07/2018 3:30:15 AM Armchair, >What I'm saying is that there's 3 ways to increase the potential for manufac.....
» 19/07/2018 3:18:39 AM Luciferase, Firstly, this has very little to do with my religion, which is Christianity. T.....
» 17/07/2018 11:07:29 PM Apologies for what I think was an autocorrect error in my reply to Bazz - it should have s.....
» 17/07/2018 6:48:11 PM Bazz,I though you meant a real study, not a blog article! Juan's calculations have (in hi.....
» 17/07/2018 4:47:17 PM No, Bazz, the USA can call their bluff. If China tries to attack the US dollar, it will lo.....
» 17/07/2018 12:03:06 PM Bazz, China can't just call in its debt, but it could sell its bonds or wait for them to m.....
» 16/07/2018 9:35:43 PM JF, Just repeating the same claim proves nothing. You've failed to prove the nutrient loa.....
» 16/07/2018 4:52:40 PM Yet again Graham displays his ignorance. This time his main shortcoming seems to be his fa.....
» 16/07/2018 1:50:58 AM Hasbeen, please explain why you inferred something impossible that I never said nor implie.....
» 15/07/2018 12:35:46 PM Yuyutsu, If we try to reach God by our own efforts, it would indeed take all our time and .....
» 15/07/2018 2:46:34 AM Yuyutsu, The objective should be to move people, not traffic. CBDs have a large catchment .....
» 14/07/2018 9:34:31 PM Yuyutsu, Celibacy isn't a high ideal because it's far from ideal. A happy and faithful mar.....
» 14/07/2018 4:31:22 PM mhaze, I realise I owe you two apologies: Firstly, sorry about the lack of a further respo.....
» 14/07/2018 1:12:19 PM ttbn, Whose dream are you accusing him of plagiarising?.....
» 13/07/2018 12:12:52 PM Philip S, > the article may be very creative with the figure If so then it's deliberate.....
» 12/07/2018 5:21:50 PM Not all Roman Catholic priests are obliged to practice celibacy. Exceptions have been made.....
» 12/07/2018 3:22:36 PM Philip S., The Daily Mail has a reputation for inaccuracy, and this is no exception. The i.....
» 11/07/2018 7:01:01 PM Is Mise, I don't dispute the Koran has sexist content. But none of the verses you quoted c.....
» 11/07/2018 5:01:34 PM Is Mise, If respecting women disqualified people from being Muslims then I'd support a com.....
» 11/07/2018 2:40:32 PM >These tell us about power costs (and reliability?): >The green line shows the share.....
» 10/07/2018 3:17:53 AM >Aidan, You know full well that the information you seek is on google. ALTRAV, Google .....
» 10/07/2018 2:45:58 AM mhaze, Firstly, thanks for the Soviet information. Secondy, you completely misunderstand .....
» 9/07/2018 6:15:11 PM ALTRAV, I' well aware of the 911 conspiracy theories, but those "debunking the expert.....
» 9/07/2018 10:59:49 AM ALTRAV "9/11 had nothing to do with Al-qaeda." Considering their means, motive, .....
» 9/07/2018 10:44:51 AM No, individual, the problem was safety. But in economic terms the outcome was better than .....
» 8/07/2018 11:18:23 PM mhaze, "Devaluation is always a detriment to the economy" No it isn't; it's the .....
» 8/07/2018 2:52:43 AM ALTRAV, Your years of looking at conspiracy theory websites hardly counts as research! Th.....
» 7/07/2018 9:20:24 PM The only surprising thing about the list is that it's the USA, not Mexico, on it. I'd no .....
» 7/07/2018 9:03:48 PM ALTRAV, Yes, the Nazi propaganda is so much more memorable than the truth! But it is the l.....
» 7/07/2018 4:42:36 PM Years of work has already been done to check the virus doesn't affect other species. The o.....
» 7/07/2018 12:14:45 PM ALTRAV, Firstly, apologies for the typo. It should have been "those scenarios are sti.....
» 7/07/2018 11:07:12 AM individual, No they're not. Do you even know what "deflationary" means?.....
» 7/07/2018 12:42:54 AM mhaze (continued) "Governments spending money they've taken from others to create th.....
» 7/07/2018 12:41:39 AM mhaze, "The idea that we can merrily spend on any notion that comes to mind with no p.....
» 6/07/2018 11:07:11 PM Philip S, Yes I'm sure. The fact that Fiat is a large Italian manufacturer that makes a lo.....
» 5/07/2018 10:57:05 PM Philip S, It's not monopoly money; it's fiat money. Its value is set by supply and demand,.....
» 5/07/2018 5:07:47 PM Philip S, Considering the "probably" and the unlimited timeframe, any amount - t.....
» 5/07/2018 3:04:13 PM Philip S, The power of the government to confiscate gold bullion is an anachronism; It was.....
» 5/07/2018 11:20:18 AM ttbn, >...a good reason why he should be honoured by a group trying to get back to comm.....
» 5/07/2018 11:08:38 AM Armchair, If you make spending more efficient and not increase spending, you will get more.....
» 5/07/2018 10:48:47 AM Luciferase, Renewables certainly require redundancy. That doesn't necessarily have to come.....
» 4/07/2018 4:50:47 PM Armchair, >No, they don't have to abandon balancing budgets. Yes, Armchair, they do. T.....
» 3/07/2018 3:21:59 PM ttbn, If you don't bother to read the article, you shouldn't comment on it. Bragging about.....
» 3/07/2018 1:25:24 AM Luciferase, >How is anything that relies on storing solar going to be viable up against.....
» 3/07/2018 12:28:38 AM Luciferase, >So, for unpredictable periods of "weeks at a time" FF generators.....
» 2/07/2018 2:11:12 PM individual, Even no insurance is better than insurance which takes your money and fails to.....
» 1/07/2018 5:10:28 PM individual, There's one lesson I hope you (and the police) took from this: always check yo.....
» 30/06/2018 1:10:57 PM >Evidently he believes that if it is in a book it must be true. Hasbeen, if you read mo.....
» 30/06/2018 12:40:37 PM individual, the following link may be of use to you: http://law.ato.gov.au/atolaw/view.htm.....
» 30/06/2018 11:16:44 AM Until today I hadn't realised the Aeroplane Jelly song had multiple verses!.....
» 29/06/2018 6:58:33 PM individual, I'm not an expert in tax law (nor any kind of lawyer or accountant) but that d.....
» 29/06/2018 6:15:31 PM runner, >Ask any Muslim if they worship the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ or .....
» 29/06/2018 5:08:55 PM And here we have yet another case of GIGO! In this case the Garbage In is that, in Geoff'.....
» 29/06/2018 10:15:27 AM Belly, Labor agree wit you on that, and have promised to disallow new negative gearing on .....
» 29/06/2018 2:03:05 AM individual, Do you actually know what negative gearing is? Why do you think people who mak.....
» 28/06/2018 7:04:08 PM david f, Christians and Muslims worship the same God, despite having very different ideas .....
» 28/06/2018 6:43:21 PM ttbn, Not inferring things that were never implied doesn't equate to a lack of comprehensi.....
» 28/06/2018 6:10:48 PM Belly, The problem is the country where the profit shows up isn't always the country where.....
» 28/06/2018 2:17:36 PM Struth, individual, is it really that hard to understand? If our current progressive tax .....
» 28/06/2018 2:11:13 PM ttbn, There seems to be a serious problem with your comprehension, as Belly didn't claim A.....
» 28/06/2018 1:29:40 PM individual, Is this a deliberate attempt to misrepresent my position? Are you faking stupi.....
» 28/06/2018 10:37:57 AM Turnbull isn't stupid - he knows that yours is a fringe viewpoint that the vast majority o.....
» 28/06/2018 10:22:32 AM Individual, >?? Wouldn't a Flat Tax simply mean that the high earners make slightly les.....
» 28/06/2018 2:11:59 AM Those who worship humans will always be let down by humans. And Foxy, the ideas that... &.....
» 28/06/2018 1:55:02 AM individual, Your earlier reference to a flat tax was ambiguous, so I answered it comprehen.....
» 27/06/2018 4:37:58 PM Cutting taxes to increase growth and revenue based on the Laffer Curve didn't work in Reag.....
» 27/06/2018 3:32:26 PM individual, A flat tax for everyone, businesses included, is something I strongly oppose. .....
» 26/06/2018 5:55:54 PM Shadow, >Businesses create jobs, not governments. True, false respectively. Businesses.....
» 26/06/2018 3:37:35 PM "The lesson learned from the collapse of the Soviet Union was the need to have the pa.....
» 22/06/2018 5:48:45 PM ALTRAV, I don't remember you showing that. It would be nice if it's true, as that would be.....
» 22/06/2018 4:02:49 PM ttbn, Rather than blindly assuming things will be even worse, take a few minutes to questi.....
» 22/06/2018 11:40:13 AM A job for everyone is a desirable outcome, but the policy was abandoned by governments bec.....
» 21/06/2018 6:36:11 PM ALTRAV (continued) Your confidence that "man's contribution to CC is negligeable".....
» 21/06/2018 6:29:26 PM ALTRAV, >The whole concept of humans affecting the state of the Earth, is a little bit .....
» 21/06/2018 3:31:28 PM The petrodollar used to be a thing. Now the markets are more sophisticated it's just a mem.....
» 20/06/2018 3:59:49 PM The problem is not logic, it's assumptions. People are wrongly assuming the population to .....
» 20/06/2018 1:02:46 PM individual, What aid we should provide depends on what's needed, but it's rare for commodi.....
» 20/06/2018 12:36:06 PM individual, The large number of migrants to Europe is the result of them fleeing conflict,.....
» 18/06/2018 3:34:03 PM Hasbeen, I've now found that data you were too lazy to post a link to. For the benefit of .....
» 18/06/2018 3:18:58 PM mhaze, The Germans did take the acid rain problem seriously, and AIUI treating the exhaust.....
» 18/06/2018 1:31:00 PM Canem Malum, "Answer- "Replacement Levels" are a moving target if less deat.....
» 18/06/2018 11:59:39 AM Jayb, Try http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=19800&page=0.....
» 18/06/2018 11:56:33 AM Paul1405, The concept of a fair go may have started out restricted, but by the time I firs.....
» 15/06/2018 9:46:50 PM Hasbeen, Considering 2016 was the hottest year on record, such a drop doesn't have the sig.....
» 15/06/2018 7:42:16 PM mhaze, The reunification of Germany certainly had a lot to do with it, but the big reducti.....
» 15/06/2018 6:57:52 PM individual, "The opposition doesn't do it's job so who better than a Union not aligne.....
» 15/06/2018 6:45:08 PM rehctub, >Aiden, how does a machine, that replaces workers, make workers more productiv.....
» 15/06/2018 5:35:26 PM JBowyer, "End of pipe technology" is an engineering term, not "green nonsen.....
» 15/06/2018 3:39:42 PM JBowyer, Europe addressed the acid rain issue, partly with end of pipe technology (filters.....
» 15/06/2018 2:12:01 PM ttbn, Either you're having some pronoun trouble or you're a massive hypocrite! You seem t.....
» 15/06/2018 12:10:19 PM ttbn, You say you're not lying, but your absurd claim that "Simple record checking sh.....
» 15/06/2018 2:57:30 AM individual, The Polynesian seafarers' knowledge was based more on successes than failures......
» 14/06/2018 11:36:07 PM ttbn, You are lying when you claim "Simple record checking showed those interested in.....
» 14/06/2018 12:19:23 PM Struth, what a dumb article! You'd think that, as a farmer, Viv would know that the limiti.....
» 14/06/2018 11:43:32 AM Now the smoke's cleared, what was wrong with Rudd as leader?.....
» 14/06/2018 11:40:22 AM Only politically, Toni. Technically its not that hard......
» 14/06/2018 1:57:02 AM If the economy is being properly managed, there should be no need for community currencies.....
» 14/06/2018 1:53:50 AM individual, I, and I think the majority of Australians, would very strongly oppose private.....
» 13/06/2018 3:19:27 PM rehctub, You are simply lying when you claim our debt to be unserviceable. Not only is the.....
» 12/06/2018 6:32:36 PM individual, Would I be correct in deducing your experience with unions was more than thirt.....
» 12/06/2018 5:46:52 PM David, Are you really unfamiliar with the concept of poor quality copies? _______________.....
» 12/06/2018 11:30:52 AM Armchair, Bernanke's prediction is largely based on the erroneous assumption that the USA .....
» 12/06/2018 11:13:33 AM Toni Lavis, Of course it should be an Arts degree. A degree in the Science of Western Civi.....
» 12/06/2018 10:53:42 AM There are still Christian financial institutions in Australia, such as lll.org.au.....
» 11/06/2018 7:45:58 PM runner, "In Britian Tommy Robinson is in gaol for exposing muslim paedophile ring wit.....
» 11/06/2018 7:14:05 PM individual, "Are you trying to tell us that the insane media pressure by the insane m.....
» 11/06/2018 5:57:28 PM runner, >as much as the marxist hate it the bible has resulted in the most civilised pe.....
» 11/06/2018 2:14:37 PM mhaze, I hadn't heard claim 5 before. What's the source?.....
» 10/06/2018 11:51:31 PM Canem Malum, SocSci domination is not the problem - the real problem is accountants making.....
» 9/06/2018 7:18:36 PM AIUI the world has already reached Peak Child, but has not yet reached Peak Population bec.....
» 9/06/2018 3:46:53 PM Canem Malum, "All nuclear powers have UN veto power or will soon with the possible ex.....
» 9/06/2018 2:28:16 PM Individual, Am I right in thinking that your description of Tony Windsor as "nothing.....
» 8/06/2018 12:55:17 PM individual, What makes you think Tony Windsor would have been more damaging to the nation .....
» 8/06/2018 11:30:18 AM diver, It says "Darren Brady Nelson is an Austrian School economist..." which ef.....
» 8/06/2018 1:12:41 AM And now the ANU has turned down the Ramsay Centre's offer. But (as explained on Lateline) .....
» 7/06/2018 4:07:48 PM How so?.....
» 7/06/2018 2:19:33 PM I don't disagree with the content of this article, but I strongly disagree with the title!.....
» 7/06/2018 1:48:28 PM mhaze, Although you are correct that Yuyutsu's wrong, your map is not evidence of this as .....
» 5/06/2018 3:06:23 PM Paul1405, > 'Pig Iron' Bob Menzies, founder of the Liberal Party believed an unemployme.....
» 5/06/2018 2:25:38 AM Alan B., What is the point of your false accusations against me? Are you really so stupid .....
» 4/06/2018 2:53:27 PM Libertarianism is better than authoritarianism, but that says very little about the size o.....
» 1/06/2018 11:09:42 PM >The Left is the Left; nothing “pseudo” about it. There's more than one Left. There's .....
» 1/06/2018 10:45:38 PM Hasben's attitude shows exactly why SA and Tasmania need an equal senate presence to NSW a.....
» 1/06/2018 6:56:13 PM Weakening the power of the Senate means strengthening the ability of the government of the.....
» 31/05/2018 1:58:33 AM We should be worried, but not for the reasons everyone here thinks. We have a lot of probl.....
» 29/05/2018 11:21:30 AM The only downside I see is that it could be over a year to the next election!.....
» 28/05/2018 10:42:26 PM Does this change Indonesian demographics? If 95% of their smokers are men, I'd expect that.....
» 28/05/2018 11:57:36 AM plantagenet, Actually the development of the British Empire depended far more on the effec.....
» 25/05/2018 9:22:31 PM "It’s agreed that ‘Australia’ should be kept inviolate, from all exploration, settlem.....
» 25/05/2018 1:45:18 PM Shadow, If you look at the examples you've provided, you'll see that they're all examples .....
» 25/05/2018 1:22:25 AM What do you think God has against cryptocurrencies, Yuyutsu?.....
» 24/05/2018 6:31:34 PM Shadow, As we're not restricted to what's been done in the past, and Karun was clearly not.....
» 24/05/2018 5:28:40 PM Will you stop littering so they don't have to?.....
» 24/05/2018 1:38:08 PM Philip S, "1st we are not a rich country approx $500 billion in debt does not make a .....
» 24/05/2018 1:20:04 PM Shadow, what was the point of your post? Nobody's claiming Venezuela to be a nirvana. The.....
» 24/05/2018 11:43:24 AM "France, Germany and the United Kingdom need to get on the Trump bandwagon and move t.....
» 24/05/2018 2:45:07 AM ttbn, >Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information. Anyone can enter or alter mat.....
» 23/05/2018 3:40:44 PM >Once Iran has a missile and a nuclear warhead, they will be launched. No they won't. .....
» 23/05/2018 3:36:18 PM Philip S, >1st question is why are taxpayers paying this $11,538 not the employer. Bec.....
» 23/05/2018 12:12:01 PM Our economy may or may not evolve into something postcapitalist (and I expect in the futur.....
» 23/05/2018 11:27:45 AM Apologies to Hasbeen for conflating you with ttbn. It's worth noting that one of the reaso.....
» 22/05/2018 11:27:31 PM Hasbeen, I demand an apology for your libellous allegation! I have consistently opposed al.....
» 22/05/2018 1:54:32 PM Schepmans is not the Mayor of Brussels; merely the Mayor of Molenbeek. And investigating a.....
» 22/05/2018 12:32:35 PM FORTUNATELY we don't have a Donald Trump!.....
» 22/05/2018 10:43:41 AM I've seen a relevant quote attributed to A L Brown: "If you can't return a favour, pa.....
» 20/05/2018 3:09:16 PM Armchair, > One person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter. While there is .....
» 19/05/2018 7:25:08 PM Hasbeen, There's a big difference between the right to medical treatment and the right to .....
» 19/05/2018 3:02:48 AM diver dan, That drug testing at festivals is far from stupid. A lot of people were deterre.....
» 18/05/2018 12:02:17 PM Darren mistakenly believes this to be a left v right issue, but in reality neither side al.....
» 17/05/2018 1:18:31 AM individual, >I know what you mean & that's the traditional spin of throwing money at so.....
» 16/05/2018 7:01:15 PM individual, The point of economic stimulus is that it's extra money going into the economy.....
» 14/05/2018 3:07:03 PM Come off it, Hasbeen! NDIS is designed to make disabled people more productive, so should .....
» 11/05/2018 7:57:21 PM runner, 'Atheism is not totally irrational.' >then why do they come up with such idioti.....
» 11/05/2018 4:05:20 PM mac, Are you saying that the belief that no deity is real is not a belief? Or are you clai.....
» 11/05/2018 3:21:54 PM Christianity is indeed highly compatible with liberty. But Christianity is quite incompati.....
» 11/05/2018 12:01:39 PM > The budget combines good luck with good management. The government conflates good luc.....
» 10/05/2018 2:13:33 PM AJ Philips, I am of course aware that a referendum is required to change the constitution......
» 10/05/2018 12:59:10 PM Of course the world is improving in some ways. But it's not always improving enough, and i.....
» 10/05/2018 12:10:37 AM "If people weren't slaves to their animal nature, then why would they bring children .....
» 9/05/2018 7:24:50 PM The idea of doing cost benefit analyses is good, but most people are unaware of how sensit.....
» 9/05/2018 5:11:17 PM I think the court has really overstepped the mark on this one. The constitution did not in.....
» 8/05/2018 6:27:25 PM ttbn, HTH means Hope This Helps. >We are all aware of your attitude to debt, Yet you d.....
» 8/05/2018 11:16:34 AM ttbn, A surplus is where the government takes more money out of the economy than it puts i.....
» 7/05/2018 8:57:36 PM Dear Yuyutsu, Who exactly do you imagine would say: "Ah, now I can bring even more ch.....
» 7/05/2018 4:58:44 PM ttbn, Much less naïve than your treating China closing international sea lanes in the SCS .....
» 7/05/2018 12:38:23 PM ttbn, "At this moment, Australia has enough fuel for only 50 days. What happens if - .....
» 7/05/2018 2:10:03 AM Yuyutsu, >Yes, it is harsh, but the only way to eliminate child poverty is to stop havi.....
» 4/05/2018 11:06:37 AM Though Albania would be wise to guard against excessive Turkish influence, their rejecting.....
» 3/05/2018 9:42:04 PM thinkabit, You say that as though being a tax haven isn't a bad thing. But tax havens aren.....
» 3/05/2018 4:48:50 PM calwest, Of course many children were rescued and taken away for good reasons. But the fac.....
» 3/05/2018 4:31:36 PM runner, >people are not factful because they love living a lie. That much is often true.....
» 3/05/2018 3:33:40 PM Loudmouth, 'Twas never officially just because they were Aboriginal. But the Stolen Genera.....
» 1/05/2018 10:21:40 AM ant, I'd regard E&Y as almost as untrustworthy as LNP politicians! Plastics do indeed bre.....
» 28/04/2018 11:08:28 PM Alan B., >Anything that challenges the economic might of the weaponized fossil fuel ind.....
» 27/04/2018 1:21:05 PM Here the idiocy of Austrian Economics is plain for all to see. Everyone else understands .....
» 27/04/2018 10:56:36 AM Who wrote the headline for this? A rush is NOT a war!.....
» 26/04/2018 6:03:46 PM Tania de Jong, You (like many others) fail to understand that it's quite easy for governm.....
» 25/04/2018 2:13:59 AM mhaze (continued) "At that time, there will be either massive spending cut-backs or a.....
» 25/04/2018 2:10:29 AM mhaze, Firstly I apologise for the lack of clarity due to the obvious trivial errors in my.....
» 24/04/2018 2:33:07 AM mhaze, "Why did you feel the need to take hyperinflation off the table?" Because.....
» 20/04/2018 1:33:39 AM Toni Lavis, Many places, in all our states, aspire to be Australia's Riviera. I think East.....
» 19/04/2018 1:57:33 PM ttbn, You seem to be saying we should deliberately build substandard facilities because th.....
» 19/04/2018 1:43:51 AM mhaze, You weren't even close to the truth. What you should be apologising for is your ab.....
» 17/04/2018 11:18:45 PM Alan B., It does damage healthy cells. What made you think otherwise? Is there a shortage .....
» 17/04/2018 10:37:26 PM BROCK, The Ethiopia to Djibouti railway is a conventional line, not a high speed line. It .....
» 17/04/2018 9:32:22 PM Luciferase, All storage is scalable to some degree, and most is viable to some degree. Bat.....
» 17/04/2018 6:59:00 PM Luciferase, "If that was such a big deal, Aidan, people would buy subsidised batterie.....
» 17/04/2018 4:37:52 PM BROCK, Technically you're wrong, as Apple's new HQ cost far more per floor. However, movin.....
» 17/04/2018 1:31:48 PM That puzzles me, rehctub - I've used Brisbane's Airtrain, and it was nowhere near that exp.....
» 17/04/2018 11:49:29 AM A cost analysis that fails to recognise that batteries are charged when power is cheap and.....
» 17/04/2018 2:46:55 AM mhaze, "But it will make them worth less." A slight oversimplification, but basi.....
» 16/04/2018 12:58:15 PM Yes, Alan, but I was referring to the methane produced by soil microbes rather than that p.....
» 16/04/2018 11:25:29 AM Strawman! The real reason greens oppose the native vegetation clearance is the amount of .....
» 14/04/2018 12:30:03 AM Interesting turn of phrase there, Philip S. If you'd said "...the less it becomes wor.....
» 13/04/2018 9:19:38 PM It's very simple, Philip S: We own the Reserve Bank. As long as we stick to the present po.....
» 13/04/2018 7:31:02 PM I have used that so called Smartbus - although when I did the stop was hard to find and fa.....
» 11/04/2018 4:54:06 PM [Sorry, that should say "actually spending less on drugs"] Alternatively I'd ac.....
» 11/04/2018 4:48:41 PM I do not want to see live exports banned, but I think we should insist on much higher stan.....
» 11/04/2018 3:55:46 PM Shadow, 2. I stand corrected; I'd failed to notice the two lines on the graph I posted did.....
» 11/04/2018 11:40:17 AM Shadow, 2. How do you draw that conclusion? The graph at https://d3fy651gv2fhd3.cloudfront.....
» 10/04/2018 3:00:20 PM Hasbeen, "The closest thing was communism in Russia & China" That sounds very mu.....
» 10/04/2018 9:42:58 AM Alan B., Are you going senile? Because that's what it looks like from here! If not, perha.....
» 9/04/2018 4:14:05 PM Alan B., WTF are you on about? It is sensible to have a solar thermal plant with molten s.....
» 7/04/2018 11:26:00 AM Hasbeen, Yes, I know yours wasn't. I did reply to it, but I misdirected it to ttbn. My ap.....
» 7/04/2018 10:38:33 AM I had assumed ALTRAV's Friday post was an attempt at satire......
» 6/04/2018 5:52:37 PM kirby483, Before falsely accusing me of failing to see basic human traits, try actually r.....
» 6/04/2018 3:22:11 PM kirby483, Your analogy is complete garbage. A UBI would not put anyone in a position where.....
» 6/04/2018 1:42:35 PM ttbn, Under the UBI system, the low income workers would get their wages plus UBI. Whereas.....
» 6/04/2018 11:20:22 AM Armchair, Double dole wouldn't be enough, though apart from that I agree with your conclus.....
» 2/04/2018 1:58:35 AM Bazz, "The agreement between the G20 countries, including Australia, and the IMF mean.....
» 29/03/2018 10:47:13 AM Either Phil Cullen has a different definition of "bullying" to the rest of the w.....
» 29/03/2018 9:42:53 AM There's more to it than that - the status quo is not acceptable. Despite the "one law.....
» 28/03/2018 11:42:45 AM Jayb, I think you've overestimated the amount of CO2 in soft drinks by an order of magnitu.....
» 27/03/2018 10:40:50 AM Everald - "It is time for a new world order called THE COMMON GOOD to take over.&quo.....
» 27/03/2018 10:17:47 AM ISTR reading elsewhere that officially the head of the Church of England is Jesus, and tha.....
» 24/03/2018 9:45:05 PM This article seems to be partly based on a 2009 article from the Christian Science Monitor.....
» 17/03/2018 3:58:53 PM Toni, Nothing YAM said was disrespectful of the deceased......
» 17/03/2018 10:32:50 AM runner, Hawkins may have believed in fairy tales, but Hawking certainly didn't. The need .....
» 14/03/2018 1:21:45 AM ttbn, >What does "Take the environment more seriously" actually mean? Any pra.....
» 13/03/2018 12:52:04 PM Banjo, >How do we reduce impact on the enviroment and at the same time double our popul.....
» 13/03/2018 10:21:04 AM "Ordinarily, a person accused of some crime is presumed innocent until found otherwis.....
» 12/03/2018 1:43:24 PM There's a lot more to sustainability than population and standard of living. If we value t.....
» 8/03/2018 9:12:18 AM ateday, Solving the problems is the easy part. Convincing others to implement the solution.....
» 7/03/2018 10:21:58 AM 'Tis good to know that, in contrast to her first time in Parliament, Hanson has now starte.....
» 6/03/2018 9:58:19 PM >Nobody had any suggestions PeterBo, why do you regard me as nobody?.....
» 6/03/2018 9:52:46 PM >until you define what you mean by sexist or racist your comments are just pc garbage .....
» 6/03/2018 4:42:56 PM runner, I'm not sure I follow your logic. It looks like you think their terrible performan.....
» 6/03/2018 12:30:25 PM Alan B., "And only seriously intellectually challenged morons would believe we'd beco.....
» 6/03/2018 1:43:47 AM Polar bears normally live on land but hunt on the ice. See http://polarbearsinternational......
» 3/03/2018 1:07:34 AM runner, >marxist are the most violent and predominant tribe in the west. Really? I can'.....
» 2/03/2018 9:53:54 AM > How can we get politicians to sit down together and collectively decide what is in th.....
» 26/02/2018 12:31:34 AM Alan B., 'm not threatening you with libel; I'm accusing you of libel. This accusation wou.....
» 25/02/2018 1:28:48 AM Alan B., "wind towers needs to turn for around thirty years before they actually comp.....
» 24/02/2018 10:25:05 PM I liked Barnaby Joyce back in the days when he was a maverick senator. But those days are .....
» 24/02/2018 10:17:40 PM ttbn, It's rather misleading to call it a 7 year lie. Gillard intended to keep the promise.....
» 23/02/2018 3:16:06 PM Stop your trolling and switch your brain on, Alan B! I'm actually pro thorium. But I'm not.....
» 23/02/2018 8:55:10 AM Shadow, Whinging about the headline again? I refer you to my previous comment: Try reading.....
» 23/02/2018 8:37:42 AM Good news for those (internationally) who are building new nuclear power stations. Bad new.....
» 22/02/2018 9:50:02 PM Shadow, >The main flaws are that EA failed to recognize that taxes are paid on profit a.....
» 22/02/2018 1:51:01 AM Toni Lavis, > And the ice hockey, snowboarding and even the curling... I'm not so inte.....
» 22/02/2018 1:07:16 AM Alan B., What you regard as economic illiteracy on my part is actually a comprehension fai.....
» 21/02/2018 3:33:42 PM BAYGON, The role of a public broadcaster should start with informing the public, and shoul.....
» 21/02/2018 2:42:30 PM Armchair, 'Tis unlikely to have be Muslims barbecuing that dog, as they consider eating do.....
» 21/02/2018 1:25:26 PM Start by watching http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/on-top-of-the-world/9371502.....
» 21/02/2018 12:34:27 PM "... just behind San Jose (Silicone Valley)." San Jose is at the southern end of.....
» 20/02/2018 10:24:04 PM Hasbeen, Far from trying to distract from the facts, I'm trying to explain the facts. I'm .....
» 20/02/2018 2:54:30 PM "I see no reason why the NEM should have either a price cap or a price floor (negativ.....
» 19/02/2018 3:02:22 PM Hasbeen, >Researchers found a while back that any increase in CO2 led to a correspondin.....
» 18/02/2018 10:15:48 PM I'm not so interested in the figure skating, though I was very impressed with that German .....
» 18/02/2018 9:39:51 PM Banjo, You do need a brain to get engineering qualifications, even if you don't use it aft.....
» 18/02/2018 9:20:34 PM >I have little interest in the subject as I know CO2 can not cause global warming Stru.....
» 18/02/2018 5:58:47 PM Banjo, She certainly has got a brain - she's a mechanical engineer. She's made some commen.....
» 17/02/2018 4:32:42 PM Hasbeen, Forced decentralisation would almost certainly have the exact opposite effect on .....
» 17/02/2018 2:50:18 AM Foxy, Long term planning is certainly needed, but the main thing lacking at present is com.....
» 17/02/2018 2:14:37 AM Hasbeen, Yes I'm talking about public transport. The amount of fuel it uses per passenger .....
» 17/02/2018 1:28:57 AM > You would obviously need to throw away your brains to listen to such irrational garba.....
» 17/02/2018 12:12:40 AM runner, "'marxist have only one sick narrative." False, but moot because most on.....
» 16/02/2018 10:26:45 AM How many more years will it take for the right to realise that there's a large diversity o.....
» 15/02/2018 11:35:31 AM Bazz, the premise of this thread is a nonsense. Despite what the PM says, the Voice To Par.....
» 15/02/2018 1:23:37 AM Hasbeen, This is not about arithmetic, it's about assumptions. If you put garbage in, you .....
» 14/02/2018 1:19:26 PM Dear Foxy, It's not overdevelopment that's the problem; it's failure to provide the approp.....
» 12/02/2018 1:24:25 AM Alan B., It may surprise you to learn that points of substance aren't the ones that fit yo.....
» 11/02/2018 11:16:57 PM ALTRAV, Most vegetated areas are net absorbers of CO2, but there is a lot of seasonal vari.....
» 11/02/2018 1:25:59 AM Galen, Technically Kelvin are not degrees since they are an absolute measure. And the chan.....
» 10/02/2018 11:30:59 PM ALTRAV, Like Tristan Prasser, you're railing against imaginary disadvantages of renewables.....
» 10/02/2018 9:45:53 PM Apologies for failing to notice my autocorrect had turned hormesis into horses!.....
» 10/02/2018 4:18:01 PM Alan B., I see you're completely failing to address the points I made, and resorting to ad.....
» 10/02/2018 11:07:00 AM One more thing before we finish: my experience with British motorways is that the concrete.....
» 9/02/2018 11:49:29 PM Alan B., If you're going to keep advocating thorium based molten salt reactors, please tak.....
» 9/02/2018 1:34:30 PM Shadow, I'm aware of the original definition of socialism. But I contend that definition .....
» 9/02/2018 1:29:47 AM The younger generations, and indeed many members of older generations, don't view the worl.....
» 31/01/2018 1:28:24 AM Bazz, Batteries can be practical for dispatchable backup. But there are a it of people who.....
» 30/01/2018 2:33:52 PM SingletonEngineer, Table relates to emissions from all sources, whereas this article, and .....
» 30/01/2018 2:26:27 PM No, Bazz, we should be talking (and listening) about batteries. But rather than baulking a.....
» 30/01/2018 11:27:41 AM I see this article ignores the better option of concessional loans to renewable energy gen.....
» 25/01/2018 10:10:13 AM Russell seems to be unaware that SA has a large amount of gas fired generation, so the cla.....
» 24/01/2018 10:39:39 PM "What an ignorant statement, the train could run 100% full, but the 'Airport Link' in.....
» 24/01/2018 8:33:46 PM Some people don't seem to understand that Australia has a mixed economy. Making rules, reg.....
» 24/01/2018 3:18:12 PM Paul, After the insults you hurled at my city, I'm glad I offended you. You're a hypocriti.....
» 23/01/2018 6:10:33 PM Loudmouth - The former. Mere change of political administration would not be worth mention.....
» 23/01/2018 4:27:10 PM Josephus, I checked my citizenship certificate. 'Twas June, not January, when I became an .....
» 23/01/2018 3:35:38 PM "Industrial relations laws have the power to determine whether this century will be o.....
» 23/01/2018 3:16:54 PM Hasbeen, Which news report was that on? _________________________________________________.....
» 22/01/2018 2:08:09 PM Paul - There are many different models of privatization. Adelaide opted for large contract.....
» 29/12/2017 10:06:26 AM If Turnbull is willing to dismantle the Liberal brand for his own ego, I won't shed a tear.....
» 23/12/2017 10:27:30 PM Drinking alcohol is not itself a sin. However it may lead to sin, especially when consumed.....
» 22/12/2017 10:34:04 PM Shadow, >Firstly I thought your philosophy was the government could pay for everything .....
» 22/12/2017 1:16:46 PM Shadow, Though Australia's headline company tax rate is now high by international standard.....
» 16/12/2017 10:17:39 PM ttbn, His being an obscure book author does not change my opinion. Not only does he rely o.....
» 12/12/2017 8:42:06 PM ttbn, Isn't it obvious? I read his Quadrant article!.....
» 12/12/2017 3:59:22 PM So a rightwing moron suggests abolishing anything that he can't see the point of or that c.....
» 11/12/2017 11:51:24 AM "Unfortunately for Stiglitz, this would assume that traditional currencies are someho.....
» 3/12/2017 1:01:03 AM Hi Armchair, I had a look at that Venezuela article you linked to, and I have to say it's.....
» 24/11/2017 1:18:34 AM rehctub, Where did you get the idea that the vast majority of immigrants are not working?.....
» 23/11/2017 9:22:36 AM If cutting the debt is the objective then yes, there are really only three options: spend .....
» 15/11/2017 5:20:44 PM It highlights how much we need small business. Often big business declines to take the ris.....
» 12/11/2017 10:06:05 PM Oh what a silly thread! Qatar is a resource based economy - their economy is largely dep.....
» 10/11/2017 9:18:09 PM ttbn, "It's high time that the 'refugee' nonsense was put to bed, and those people ru.....
» 9/11/2017 11:44:43 AM ttbn, aside from your own idiotic claim that proven facts are "idiotic claims", .....
» 8/11/2017 12:51:47 PM What was needed was a tunnel to directly link the M4 to the port and airport. Instead Sydn.....
» 5/11/2017 8:24:59 PM On the contrary, he can be condemned on this one. Refugees are not the enemy and should no.....
» 2/11/2017 10:05:38 PM I'm really disappointed with Labor on this issue. A few weeks ago they did a lot of braggi.....
» 2/11/2017 9:52:18 PM ttbn, Have you got any actual evidence our public service is too bloated? Are you sure you.....
» 2/11/2017 6:24:11 PM ttbn, you seem to have a rather archaic notion of loyalty What exactly do you think it mea.....
» 31/10/2017 6:10:29 PM AJ Philips, Do you also believe the children of polyamorous partnerships deserve not to ha.....
» 31/10/2017 4:00:16 PM I believe all people are equal regardless of sexuality. However that does not mean all rel.....
» 30/10/2017 1:28:05 PM Shadow, So where did you get the idea that "switching to NBN would simply increase t.....
» 26/10/2017 1:23:06 PM Hasbeen, Where did you get the absurd idea that a party that can do anything it likes lead.....
» 26/10/2017 12:47:41 PM Shadow, Modulation certainly didn't "go out with the last of the 56k modems". Br.....
» 26/10/2017 9:55:05 AM Shadow, I clearly know a lot more about networks than you. Copper is a bit cheaper to inst.....
» 25/10/2017 4:14:22 PM Shadow, the claim that FTTH ISN'T superior is complete bollocks! On financial terms alone .....
» 25/10/2017 1:05:27 PM ttbn, Considering the exorbitant amount the telcos charge for landline services, using VOI.....
» 25/10/2017 1:21:22 AM Under Labor, the NBN plan was pretty good. But they did make three fairly big mistakes: 1).....
» 24/10/2017 12:04:43 PM runner, You don't seem to know the difference between a hypothesis, a theory and a fantasy.....
» 24/10/2017 10:12:24 AM curmudgeonathome, While I agree there are genuine objections to SSM, I can't agree that th.....
» 23/10/2017 1:46:22 PM Have Labor actually said they support it? Last I heard they'd reserved judgement until the.....
» 20/10/2017 11:24:03 AM "Generation without electricity transmission, distribution, and retail sales is produ.....
» 17/10/2017 1:47:37 PM Shadow, Of course the author understands the difference between wholesale and retail. His .....
» 14/10/2017 11:20:22 PM Capitalism and socialism are such broad terms that criticism of each is meaningless withou.....
» 14/10/2017 3:56:35 PM leoj, > A question is not a rebuttal, although that is a popular tactic for some. A r.....
» 14/10/2017 12:26:21 PM JBowyeer, The lack of sun is certainly a factor in the production of the ozone hole, as su.....
» 14/10/2017 1:46:42 AM leoj, Those sorts of unenforceable regulations are likely to be deeply counterproductive, .....
» 14/10/2017 12:50:53 AM Of course I believe it, Hasbeen. I'm not one for larping, and I certainly wouldn't do so u.....
» 13/10/2017 11:18:53 PM runner and leoj, You should indeed check the facts before mouthing off. Marianna Orlandi .....
» 13/10/2017 6:00:49 PM runner, we live in the information age now. If you don't know what UNESCO does, you can fi.....
» 13/10/2017 5:11:36 PM Hasbeen, WTF is it that you regard as unproven? Is it... ...that CO2 is a greenhouse gas? .....
» 12/10/2017 11:49:44 AM Runner, do you really have trouble comprehending that criminals can be victims as well? 4.....
» 12/10/2017 2:17:55 AM runner, there's zero truth in Abbott's analogy. The likening of belief in global warming t.....
» 10/10/2017 12:34:58 PM Cobber, Three obvious examples are the aluminium smelters in Iceland. But we really shoul.....
» 9/10/2017 1:04:48 PM ttbn, > Why are your mentioning 'apologies'? Feeling a little guilty? Of course I'm no.....
» 9/10/2017 1:31:35 AM ttbn, Nick Xenophon had a reputation for spending money efficiently - even being the only .....
» 8/10/2017 8:30:34 PM I for one will be voting for Nick Xenophon. His deal for concessional loans for a solar t.....
» 5/10/2017 1:21:09 AM Shadow (continued) 4. The mothballing of Pelican Point had more to do with competition fr.....
» 5/10/2017 1:19:18 AM Shadow, 1. AIUI the prices shown at http://www.aemo.com.au/Electricity/National-Electrici.....
» 29/09/2017 11:37:41 PM Shadow, 1) I'm well aware of how the generation and bidding process occurs. And I've often.....
» 28/09/2017 2:03:53 AM Shadow, 1. It's an exaggeration to claim, as you did, that it OFTEN happens. 2. Technical.....
» 27/09/2017 11:26:14 PM Hasbeen, The only reason your head's not in the clouds is that you don't open the windows .....
» 25/09/2017 7:31:28 PM Shadow, "1) The value of power to the customers is time-dependent, which is why the b.....
» 22/09/2017 12:38:51 AM Graham (continued) As for cost, renewables have a different cost structure: a higher capi.....
» 22/09/2017 12:35:29 AM Graham, your article is extremely inaccurate. It lazily parrots old claims while failing t.....
» 20/09/2017 8:53:10 AM For economic problems, governments are much better placed to solve them, as mutual societi.....
» 18/09/2017 9:43:13 AM If the NO campaign continue to resort to dubious claims about gay parenting, we'll almost .....
» 15/09/2017 1:58:51 PM Reassuring article - it's nice to know that once Un becomes Nil and peaceful reunification.....
» 13/09/2017 9:08:55 AM Hasbeen, > I'm going to vote early & often, so I can see what it feels like to be a lef.....
» 9/09/2017 3:38:28 PM JF Aus, I think the scrap value of batteries will be high enough to prevent dumping. I'm .....
» 6/09/2017 1:09:28 AM mememememememe, > don't you believe companies are in a social contract, i.e. they have .....
» 5/09/2017 6:39:14 PM Cupric Embarrasment, Companies trading with North Korea generally don't have many and vari.....
» 4/09/2017 3:24:49 PM You don't need dry cat food to feed magpies. All you need is a compost heap. Put your food.....
» 4/09/2017 3:16:38 PM That wouldn't work, Yuyutsu. If China tried to annex North Korea, North Korea would suicid.....
» 4/09/2017 3:05:27 PM calwest, I'm not a big fan of communism. Indeed I'm not even a small fan of communism. Its.....
» 2/09/2017 2:57:38 AM No, calwest, stop whinging! Your objection seemed a little far fetched the first time, but.....
» 1/09/2017 2:49:48 AM calwest, We were specifically discussing your claim that "The major totalitarian gove.....
» 31/08/2017 2:50:33 AM calwest, Nationalist China and Communist China are not the same thing. The former refers t.....
» 30/08/2017 3:31:30 PM cakwest, I stand corrected regarding the formation of the Liberals. "The major total.....
» 30/08/2017 10:25:59 AM diver dan, "With a simple stroke of a pen, the entire housing market of Australia cou.....
» 30/08/2017 2:12:07 AM Hi calwest, I think you meant contradictory rather than tautological, but I contend that a.....
» 29/08/2017 1:51:41 PM calwest,I merely stated the truth. Your labelling it as proto-communist shows your fear of.....
» 29/08/2017 11:03:45 AM Your plan won't work. You'll find many people would rather go to prison than answer truthf.....
» 29/08/2017 10:48:35 AM "Only when Moral Hazard is expunged from the global financial system, interest rates .....
» 28/08/2017 8:56:22 PM Shadow, "Keynes was the first to declare that in times of high employment that the ec.....
» 25/08/2017 10:17:37 AM A "natural party of government" is a bad thing because it destroys accountabilit.....
» 24/08/2017 10:20:51 AM Shadow, What is your source for that claim? Does it take into account the loss of purchasi.....
» 24/08/2017 1:50:34 AM Referundemdrivensocienty, Technically that's wrong. Governments do rely on tax for social .....
» 24/08/2017 1:22:47 AM ttbn, I presume that means you haven't the foggiest? I daresay there will be other reader.....
» 23/08/2017 7:17:30 PM progressive pat, It's far from crazy to import stuff we can make here. A lot of it's low v.....
» 23/08/2017 10:48:26 AM Foxy, Banning burqas would be an unwarranted restriction on people's freedom to wear what .....
» 19/08/2017 3:01:05 AM ttbn, From http://www.conservatives.org.au/our_policies#national_broadcasting_abc_and_sbs.....
» 18/08/2017 11:03:29 AM Struth, what a crappy policy! Ruining and shrinking our national broadcasters and using t.....
» 17/08/2017 11:34:25 AM The plan for a plebiscite was based on the lie that a referendum would be unconstitutional.....
» 15/08/2017 1:03:58 PM Shadow, I agree the proposed changes need to be part of the question. But who are these re.....
» 14/08/2017 11:09:25 AM Philip S, "Simple fact you pay google and they will put you (company organization pro.....
» 4/08/2017 11:48:28 AM The case for cutting company tax rate further is EXTREMELY WEAK. For while it is true that.....
» 1/08/2017 2:21:46 PM runner, " for decades the lefist socialist have used what they consider inequality as.....
» 1/08/2017 1:55:57 PM Without the benefit of hindsight, selecting the wise is nigh on impossible......
» 1/08/2017 12:56:20 PM leoj, it's pointless trying to keep this thread on topic because you chose such a retarded.....
» 1/08/2017 11:38:40 AM Ralph, "With a stable population , you can have stable economic output and have full .....
» 31/07/2017 6:54:58 PM runner, can you name any socialists who hold that opinion? A single example will be suffic.....
» 31/07/2017 2:29:57 PM That's 4chan tier bait!.....
» 30/07/2017 4:02:36 PM mhaze, Further to what I was saying before, you can expect a huge rise in Bill Shorten's .....
» 28/07/2017 11:09:50 PM Thinkabit, the UK currently has the European tier of government on top of all the rest, th.....
» 28/07/2017 6:37:12 PM thinkabit, If you're going to use school halls as an example, at least base it on the real.....
» 27/07/2017 12:34:07 PM Foxy, Money spent having frequent elections is money well spent. The vast majority of poli.....
» 27/07/2017 11:48:34 AM mhaze, Remember Paul Keating's tactic ultimately failed. His seeming obsession over distra.....
» 26/07/2017 5:24:27 PM ttbn, For what I think is the first time, I'm in complete agreement with you!.....
» 23/07/2017 9:22:27 PM Don - "Ranking voting systems as more or less democratic is a waste of time." N.....
» 21/07/2017 8:28:39 PM "Countries wishing to reduce the birth rate should promote feminism and those wishing.....
» 21/07/2017 12:38:59 AM Alan B., I am well aware of how the preferential voting system works. Of course there a.....
» 21/07/2017 12:17:50 AM Hasbeen. Why do you let comparisons with the past blind you to the potential improvements.....
» 20/07/2017 9:13:03 PM Alan B., "The two party system and preferential voting has regularly meant candidates.....
» 18/07/2017 6:56:09 PM Bazz, there's no mystery about the third building collapse. It was severely damaged from d.....
» 18/07/2017 1:58:06 PM Shadow, I stand corrected: contrary to what I originally said, it is not now impossible to.....
» 18/07/2017 1:39:14 PM ALTRAV, " if the terrorists wanted to inflict maximum casualties, why ensure that the.....
» 17/07/2017 5:54:18 PM ALTRAV, Trucks going to the WTC at night and leaving early in the morning? Have you consid.....
» 17/07/2017 1:00:51 PM Shadow, "The requirement not to have the citizenship of another country is well know.....
» 17/07/2017 11:03:02 AM Am I the only one here who can see how this could be an innocent mistake? They did subsequ.....
» 16/07/2017 10:02:16 PM ALTRAV, Reading stupid conspiracy websites does not amount to looking deeper. We know fo.....
» 16/07/2017 1:59:31 AM o sung wu, The principal within the Rothschild family is a figment of your imagination. .....
» 15/07/2017 2:07:34 AM AIUI the term "Black Death" refers to a particular historical plague outbreak ra.....
» 14/07/2017 10:30:36 PM ALTRAV, There are a lot of conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds. For example many peo.....
» 9/07/2017 7:31:56 PM Hasbeen, it may have escaped your attention, but public transport does also serve places o.....
» 8/07/2017 4:45:50 PM Hasbeen, What's ridiculously expensive is road transport in urban areas. Public transport.....
» 7/07/2017 6:09:33 PM No, Bazz, we're nowhere near it. What made you think otherwise?.....
» 7/07/2017 1:55:29 PM Hasbeen, Actually the cost of gas is very high because international demand for it is ver.....
» 7/07/2017 1:06:38 PM Immediate extension of the Airport West tramway to the airport, plus construction of a hig.....
» 5/07/2017 5:36:04 PM Whether a study finds coal fired or renewable electricity cheaper depends on what assumpti.....
» 5/07/2017 11:15:14 AM Bazz, They're hinged at the base, and padlocked. Once the padlock is removed, they can be.....
» 5/07/2017 1:37:18 AM The obvious solution is to have at least one of the bollards able to be moved out of the w.....
» 3/07/2017 10:52:40 AM We do have plenty of allies, so it's NOT imperative for diesel subs to refuel in Australia.....
» 3/07/2017 10:49:27 AM This is outrageous. We should be educating the students, not maintaining their illusions. .....
» 1/07/2017 2:42:46 AM mhaze (continued) Interest rates don't just happen. They are set by the Reserve Bank to c.....
» 1/07/2017 1:33:50 AM mhaze, Debt really doesn't matter. We can never run out of money, as Australia is a sovere.....
» 30/06/2017 12:30:28 AM moonshine, Chewing the stick at both ends? If I encounter your errors in future, should I .....
» 29/06/2017 2:17:11 PM mhaze, your accusation that I've caved is libellous. I've never ever claimed we can borrow.....
» 29/06/2017 10:39:51 AM Foxy, Why? The only policy advantage the Libs have over Labor is that they want a plebisc.....
» 29/06/2017 10:28:45 AM mhaze your comprehension is very poor. I never claimed a lack of adverse consequences from.....
» 29/06/2017 3:28:26 AM moonshine, You have quite a poor understanding both of scripture and of history. No king .....
» 29/06/2017 2:45:32 AM So Hasbeen, why is it so difficult for you to understand that because Australia owns the R.....
» 28/06/2017 6:25:44 PM CORRECTION: My above post should of course read: Hasbeen, If your "little bit of his.....
» 28/06/2017 5:15:18 PM Hasbeen, If your "little bit of history" is accurate then clearly it's the latte.....
» 28/06/2017 2:26:42 AM Hasbeen, "So you are telling me Aidan, that a 70% reduction in manning, [or overmanni.....
» 27/06/2017 10:11:32 AM Hasbeen, Nobody's suggesting any government owned business should be union controlled. But.....
» 26/06/2017 3:04:58 PM Alan B,, "Can any of you imagine what would become of us if the massively debt laden .....
» 26/06/2017 12:13:20 PM You know an argument is going to be weak when "great" Austrian school economists.....
» 22/06/2017 5:15:41 PM The assumption that they'll be holding everyone else back is part of the problem. And the.....
» 21/06/2017 2:12:00 PM Then clearly you haven't studied it very well. Just because there are a few regulations ab.....
» 21/06/2017 1:45:44 PM No, AJ, owning a slave is not justified whether or not Christianity is true. If you think .....
» 21/06/2017 11:06:40 AM So one of the idiots responsible for our second rate NBN (which wastes electricity and wil.....
» 20/06/2017 2:05:48 PM Of course the fall in smoking rates is lower now that the low hanging fruit is gone. The e.....
» 19/06/2017 12:27:06 PM Am I missing something here? You regard an IRISH court's interpretation of the IRISH const.....
» 19/06/2017 11:21:45 AM It's worse than that, The Metro's planned to send NW suburbs commuters on a huge detour to.....
» 15/06/2017 6:34:46 PM Alan B., You were the one who brought up Zimbabwe, falsely claiming it to be a counterexam.....
» 15/06/2017 4:09:26 PM Alan B., "Government deficits are not an inexhaustible supply of picked from thin air.....
» 15/06/2017 12:11:55 PM Here we see proof of Tony Makin's incompetence: "All advanced economies, except Germ.....
» 10/06/2017 1:12:04 AM diver, you're way off multiple marks. Children of the modern world are not a homogenous g.....
» 10/06/2017 1:04:31 AM ttbn, how would we stop the politicians inflicting bad legislation on us if we got rid of .....
» 9/06/2017 2:43:49 AM diver - The only ones who would benefit from neglecting to educate a portion of the popula.....
» 7/06/2017 12:04:19 PM runner, where did you receive your own education? _______________________________________.....
» 7/06/2017 10:26:20 AM diver dan, Despite what you claim, your comments are driven by ideology. And it's a partic.....
» 6/06/2017 2:28:23 PM This article is rather strawmanish. SJWs aren't a homogenous group, and there's very littl.....
» 5/06/2017 9:25:12 PM runner, India would never laugh at the stupidity of any religion - doing so would highligh.....
» 5/06/2017 4:05:23 PM It's nothing to do with windmills not liking the cold. It just hasn't been very windy late.....
» 3/06/2017 2:41:51 AM Hasbeen, "Come on Aidan, I don't know any climate denialists claiming there has been .....
» 2/06/2017 12:14:08 PM Anyone can write blog posts. And that should be a good thing. Alas many people judge a blo.....
» 1/06/2017 12:45:12 PM Whether or not you support policies that favour big business, having them doesn't make the.....
» 31/05/2017 12:42:39 PM Diver, don't scapegoat the ABC - they're pretty neutral on the issue. It's the Murdoch pre.....
» 31/05/2017 3:17:00 AM rehctub, I agree the money should not be wasted. But the "borrow like drunken soldi.....
» 31/05/2017 12:02:29 AM Struth, Alan B., why do you have so much trouble comprehending that not everyone accesses .....
» 30/05/2017 11:45:02 AM Alan B., "...take a butchers at Graham's current editorial on the opposite page and .....
» 30/05/2017 11:11:39 AM rehctub, "Although I will say it's hard to stimulate an economy with a huge inherited.....
» 29/05/2017 5:33:18 PM Bazz, Whether or not they claim Jerusalem is not the issue. The issue is the continued v.....
» 29/05/2017 3:40:19 PM The low wages growth is the government's fault. They've failed to stimulate the economy, s.....
» 29/05/2017 3:32:43 PM Considering the excessive amount of coverage the mainstream media devoted to S Corby's rel.....
» 29/05/2017 2:30:16 PM The real problem is the lack of paid work available, and that in turn is the result of the.....
» 29/05/2017 2:08:30 PM Correction to the first paragraph of the above: I certainly thought you were trolling. But.....
» 29/05/2017 12:01:13 PM A;am B, I certainly thought you were trolling. But if you really are so ignorant as to thi.....
» 28/05/2017 7:23:41 PM Alan B, With trolling like that, you deserve all the abuse you will ever get. The troubl.....
» 28/05/2017 12:51:03 PM Alan B, I agree MOE has potential outside steel production. Titanium production is probab.....
» 26/05/2017 4:47:27 PM Raycom, If the inland railway were just a commercial venture (with the objective of makin.....
» 26/05/2017 12:34:44 PM It is well known that all steelworks (other than a few that operate purely by recycling, f.....
» 26/05/2017 12:17:58 PM leoj, The senate refusing to pass bad legislation is evidence of responsibility, not irres.....
» 25/05/2017 3:22:11 PM "Do we have anyone who believes that the Brisbane to Melbourne rail link would have a.....
» 24/05/2017 6:28:13 PM I thought this was going to be a good article. Instead it turned into more of the usual dr.....
» 24/05/2017 2:29:26 AM runner, your grammar is terrible. But your commendation of Tony Abbott's policy of demonis.....
» 23/05/2017 3:13:24 PM Bazz, Sort of. We can always create money when we need it. And contrary to popular belief.....
» 22/05/2017 11:02:19 PM Bazz, Silencing ex public servants wouldn't help. This site is full of idiots with similar.....
» 22/05/2017 2:36:57 PM doog, did you copy that off an American website? This thread is about Australia not the US.....
» 22/05/2017 1:51:36 PM Bazz, be serious. I didn't say we should waste any of the money. We shouldn't. Debt doesn'.....
» 22/05/2017 1:37:55 PM If political incompetence were an impeachable offence, Trump would've been impeached alrea.....
» 22/05/2017 1:30:57 PM leoj, "Where else will the Greens and others be able to protest and get headlines?&qu.....
» 22/05/2017 12:53:55 PM Hasbeen, FPTP is an abomination. Do you really want an electoral system where standing fo.....
» 22/05/2017 12:24:34 AM Bazz and CHERFUL, We are literally at 0% of our credit limit. So why are you so paranoid .....
» 21/05/2017 11:49:30 PM Yuyutsu (continued) "If government has this responsibility then it had failed badly&.....
» 21/05/2017 11:48:31 PM Yuyutsu (continued) Your hoping governments will retire seems just plain dumb to me. What.....
» 21/05/2017 6:04:36 PM No, Yuyutsu, I haven't seen that old series. But from your description, it seems to highli.....
» 20/05/2017 12:36:58 PM And leoj's post illustrates the real problem: many decades ago the left spouted the rhetor.....
» 19/05/2017 2:05:40 AM Dear Yuyutsu, Without debt there would be no savings. Even the creation of cash involves .....
» 18/05/2017 9:32:20 PM Moronic article that shows just what an imbecile Gary Johns is! Australia has never had, .....
» 18/05/2017 6:38:19 PM rehctub, The following are NOT rhetorical questions: What will it take to convince you t.....
» 18/05/2017 2:37:56 AM Foxy, I oppose changing our electoral system (apart from a minor change to the senate vot.....
» 17/05/2017 11:38:37 AM Struth, it appears Don's written an article on social justice without knowing what it is! .....
» 16/05/2017 2:45:13 PM The real problem isn't inequality of wealth, it's disparity in standard of living......
» 16/05/2017 2:36:40 PM There certainly seems to be a problem there. On what grounds did the AAT reject their depo.....
» 15/05/2017 3:58:35 PM ttbn, "Aidan's been on the turps again." What've you been smoking that brought y.....
» 13/05/2017 1:24:36 AM "...why are we never told exactly how much money is in this Consolidated Revenue fund.....
» 13/05/2017 1:07:14 AM NDIS was designed to be largely self funding, enabling many people to work when they would.....
» 11/05/2017 3:05:20 PM leoj, Firstly, what incidents are you referring to? Secondly, Get out of Jail Free Cards.....
» 11/05/2017 1:45:39 AM leoj, AFAIK nobody's dispelling the details. But ttbn seems to be assuming the claimants .....
» 10/05/2017 9:45:24 PM ttbn; "But it wasn't Rememberance Day was it? It was Anzac Day." Duh! And becau.....
» 10/05/2017 8:01:36 PM Luciferase, why do you choose to propagate the lie that government debt burdens the young?.....
» 10/05/2017 7:21:32 PM ttbn "These people are NOT refugees,and there is nothing in the report to say that th.....
» 10/05/2017 7:16:09 PM ttbn, Abdel Magied's remarks, though inappropriate for Anzac Day, were hardly disparaging.....
» 10/05/2017 4:20:11 PM What proportion of those people went straight onto welfare? And what proportion are retire.....
» 8/05/2017 5:08:55 PM runner, when did you last get your mental health checked? I ask because you appear to be .....
» 8/05/2017 2:02:57 PM OK, Hasbeen, I'll bite: What is this argument that you imagine the world's climate scienti.....
» 6/05/2017 10:47:49 AM david f, The dark ages were not as you assume them to be. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wik.....
» 2/05/2017 11:19:18 PM runner, nobody claimed an eradication of snow in Europe. Indeed it was predicted that glob.....
» 2/05/2017 11:02:37 PM It makes me think of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYt0ldmAlhA.....
» 2/05/2017 2:35:24 PM Silly article. Surely you're not so idiotic that being informed of the global plastic prob.....
» 2/05/2017 1:51:40 AM ttbn, "What has 'racism' got to do with electricity?" Nothing; it just highligh.....
» 1/05/2017 11:21:25 PM doog, "The first test will be a bomb." No it won't. Bombs that used nuclear fus.....
» 28/04/2017 4:46:45 PM Taswegian, When did you live in SA? When I first came here, in 1988, there were occasiona.....
» 28/04/2017 2:06:28 PM Lazy, deceptive article. The "before candles" joke previously applied to Auckla.....
» 27/04/2017 2:57:19 PM ttbn, why do you think she hasn't changed much? She's not the one shouting and screaming n.....
» 26/04/2017 3:21:33 PM Struth, what a bunch of pathetic whingers yz are! Some of the posters here seem to be advo.....
» 26/04/2017 11:21:03 AM No, Bazz, it's not all based on confidence. Confidence plays a big part in setting the sho.....
» 26/04/2017 1:25:10 AM chrisgaff1000 We are not bankrupt. Government debt is literally at 0% of our credit limit.....
» 25/04/2017 7:09:05 PM ttbn, 1. I never claimed disagreement with what I post was ignorance. But failing to under.....
» 25/04/2017 3:34:07 PM ttbn, Your previous response to me on this thread indicates that you want to stay ignoran.....
» 21/04/2017 10:57:23 PM ttbn, when you base your opinions on the facts rather than the stereotype, lemmings do ind.....
» 21/04/2017 2:50:24 PM ttbn, Bob Day was initially elected, but his election was subsequently found to be invalid.....
» 21/04/2017 12:15:25 PM Shockadelic, As someone on the left, I find your fears laughable. People are individuals.....
» 21/04/2017 9:39:41 AM I'd like to see Barnaby try this, but I really don't think he's smart enough!.....
» 21/04/2017 12:42:41 AM ttbn, The "not Victoria" comment was because Croweaters tend to regard Vapour Ru.....
» 20/04/2017 6:02:34 PM No, ttbn, they haven't blown it - they've still got a senator, and they never realisticall.....
» 20/04/2017 5:10:13 PM Pensioners have a right to spend their own money as they see fit. The fact that it used to.....
» 19/04/2017 12:42:09 PM Gun ownership and the ready availability of guns are entirely different things......
» 16/04/2017 3:39:41 PM > Pipes says: “Direct American involvement implies favoring one side against the other,.....
» 7/04/2017 6:23:37 PM Jardine, You seem to be trying to argue that anyone who doesn't agree with aggressive vio.....
» 3/04/2017 12:58:46 PM Bazz, I think the settings were to protect the damaged powerlines from further damage. &q.....
» 3/04/2017 10:33:12 AM Struth, Jardine, do you STiLL not comprehend what I'm saying? I consider assault to be in.....
» 1/04/2017 11:52:45 PM Well that's just typical of you, Jardine: I tell you what I understand the truth to be, an.....
» 1/04/2017 2:05:44 AM Jardine, AIUI the crime (and tort) of assault does not necessarily involve actual violenc.....
» 31/03/2017 9:09:51 AM doog, tropical cyclones do not develop multiple eyes, and never will. That's because the w.....
» 31/03/2017 1:18:54 AM Alan B., Solar thermal with molten salt storage has been developed for commercial operatio.....
» 30/03/2017 4:06:09 PM JBowyer, AIUI there is one smallish solar thermal facility (without molten salt storage) i.....
» 30/03/2017 9:50:29 AM The NEM was never the world's most efficient energy market. SA's power privatisation expos.....
» 30/03/2017 1:16:19 AM Jardine, The government classify assault as violent. So do I. But that doesn't mean it nec.....
» 29/03/2017 8:27:18 AM Jardine, "Whether you regard assault as non-violent is irrelevant. The fact is, the g.....
» 28/03/2017 3:04:44 PM Jardine (continued), You keep droning on about The Economic Calculation Problem. I hadn't .....
» 28/03/2017 3:03:07 PM Jardine, My "fallacious eat-the-rich marxoidism" is a figment of your imaginatio.....
» 26/03/2017 2:01:27 AM Jardine, Firstly, there is no contradiction in wanting the government's ability to use vi.....
» 25/03/2017 2:56:59 PM I think Gore's America would still have invaded Afghanistan. The difference is that withou.....
» 25/03/2017 9:39:35 AM Contradicting myself, Jardine? Then perhaps you'd care to provide evidence? I've numbered .....
» 24/03/2017 9:27:31 PM Jardine, It is not actually myself that I'm contradicting; it's just your assumptions. A.....
» 24/03/2017 4:24:39 PM Jardine: 1. I said I thought governments SHOULD restrict their violence to self defence a.....
» 24/03/2017 12:43:06 AM Jardine (continued) The question of whether taxation and inflation reduce a person's abil.....
» 24/03/2017 12:41:22 AM Jardine, You're making the mistake of equating rationality to conforming with your assumpt.....
» 23/03/2017 9:13:32 PM Jardine, I see you're still accusing people of ad hominem while yourself resorting to lies.....
» 22/03/2017 1:22:57 PM "According to a 2013 OECD report, Australian's aged over 65 were second only to Korea.....
» 22/03/2017 12:55:31 PM On an individual level, using super to buy a house is entirely sensible. Your standard of .....
» 21/03/2017 12:35:59 AM doog, the interconnector was upgraded last year. But once Hazelwood closes, the main direc.....
» 20/03/2017 3:00:39 PM Luciferase, There's quite a lot of science being done to replace the Haber process with s.....
» 20/03/2017 11:05:11 AM We should make coercing someone into having an abortion a criminal offence with mandatory .....
» 20/03/2017 9:28:06 AM Hasbeen, Time to grow up yourself - ditch the EROEI meme and start thinking about the real.....
» 17/03/2017 3:13:23 PM Bazz, I suggest you follow your own link and reread Ugo Bardi's article, for it explains .....
» 16/03/2017 1:32:16 AM Geoff of Perth, Megawatts are a measure of power, not energy, so average consumption is no.....
» 15/03/2017 2:14:42 PM JF Aus, Paul Keating put the Aussie dollar on the market because speculators were making .....
» 15/03/2017 1:37:03 PM mhaze, "The issue isn't how the government can fix these problems. The issue is how t.....
» 13/03/2017 3:58:08 PM Luciferase, it's the sanity that's begun, and the madness of burning huge amounts of coal .....
» 13/03/2017 11:09:38 AM Luciferase, I repeat: IT'S A MEANS OF PRODUCING A RELIABLE SUPPLY. If what we were after .....
» 13/03/2017 10:26:06 AM ttbn, "I don't see how storing electricity is a substitute for having a reliable supp.....
» 7/03/2017 12:43:50 PM The issue shouldn't be how much the Australia Post CEO was paid, but whether we got our mo.....
» 6/03/2017 10:41:09 PM Most of this article is well written. But the first sentence is a complete non sequiter. M.....
» 4/03/2017 3:13:46 AM plantagenet, The Right are reluctant to let the truth get in the way of their preferred na.....
» 1/03/2017 11:15:30 AM Bazz, For modern economies, paper money and electronic money are in equilibrium. Thus even.....
» 28/02/2017 12:16:00 PM Alan B., There's a lot more to energy than oil. Solar cell prices have been falling rapidl.....
» 28/02/2017 12:08:57 PM Arjay, Before the current debt based money system, the gold backed system we had was far w.....
» 27/02/2017 11:49:29 AM The evidence to refute the "biophysical story" is pretty clear. As acknowledged.....
» 26/02/2017 1:15:22 AM Correction to the above: in paragraph 4, "wage owners" should be "wage earn.....
» 26/02/2017 1:11:34 AM calwest, "Coal is the only reliable, cheap, baseline option for electricity generatio.....
» 25/02/2017 10:19:20 PM mhaze, This is about a lot more than our (truly pathetic) Paris commitments; it's about th.....
» 25/02/2017 12:21:58 AM Hypocritical article, whinging about an allegedly misleading claim that renewables aren't .....
» 23/02/2017 10:20:11 AM A UBI is a bit like cutting company tax rates: it is an extremely expensive way of meeting.....
» 22/02/2017 11:09:42 PM nicknamenick, There have certainly been lots of market failures in the NEM, and as I wrote.....
» 22/02/2017 4:56:13 PM rehctub, One of the nice features of a market economy is that the government doesn't have.....
» 21/02/2017 9:30:39 PM Graeme of Malvern, why are you reposting stuff that has been refuted the first time? Of c.....
» 21/02/2017 2:12:39 PM Bazz, If the industrial age is at its peak, that's just an artefact o categorisation, for.....
» 21/02/2017 1:43:51 AM JKJ (continued) Getting back on topic, I do have a pretty good understanding of what gove.....
» 21/02/2017 1:41:30 AM Jardine, Your accusations about me are a pack of lies. No doubt you believe them to be tr.....
» 20/02/2017 10:17:59 AM Alan B., Of course I was referring to fusion. Every engineer knows that nuclear processes .....
» 20/02/2017 9:27:56 AM Taswegian, We didn't have these problems 20 years ago because back then the owners (the g.....
» 20/02/2017 8:58:37 AM The government should be helping the poor, both through the benefits system and by running.....
» 19/02/2017 2:08:36 PM Alan B., ITYF the most energy dense material in the world is hydrogen. ___________________.....
» 18/02/2017 12:54:53 AM ttbn, "I'm not going to draw back from the fact the Left is mostly about hate." .....
» 17/02/2017 5:22:52 PM There's an obvious market failure. It's not regulations that are the problem, it's too lit.....
» 16/02/2017 11:58:48 AM Not too po faced or sanctimonious to read http://www.pickeringpost.com/story/the-feminine-.....
» 16/02/2017 10:00:12 AM Can we really take seriously an article that claims, without any supporting evidence, that.....
» 12/02/2017 5:56:25 PM Shadow, Are you sure that's what they said? It seems highly implausible to me! We're very.....
» 11/02/2017 10:19:42 AM Shadow If you're able to watch yesterdays SA ABC news before it disappears (this evening).....
» 6/02/2017 11:43:31 PM ttbn It's simply not true that the rest of the world, sick of the Left, is moving to the R.....
» 6/02/2017 1:19:42 AM rehctub, "I don't see what all the fuss is about with these people because one, they.....
» 31/01/2017 9:16:55 AM nicknamenick, "Anzac when the water was red with Australians' blood..." ITYF it .....
» 30/01/2017 12:31:43 PM Shadow - " The system was designed specifically to be impossible to game by de linkin.....
» 29/01/2017 8:45:12 PM Shadow, It may be impossible to RIG the system without collusion, but it's easy to GAME t.....
» 29/01/2017 8:31:46 PM Their full plan would be costly, but there are worthwhile parts that would be good value f.....
» 27/01/2017 11:36:03 PM Shadow, "Statistically, it would be impossible for one player to benefit from withhol.....
» 25/01/2017 6:16:57 PM My apologies to Bazz. I'll try to be more careful in future......
» 25/01/2017 1:51:33 PM Bazz, You're the mischievous, even untruthful one. Port Augusta had a high incidents of r.....
» 25/01/2017 1:29:21 PM rehctub, Assuming you are correct, you still haven't got any evidence whatsoever that any .....
» 24/01/2017 5:58:52 PM Shadow, I'm aware of how the NEM works. But the electricity companies have so much market.....
» 24/01/2017 2:14:23 PM ttbn, "This is 'proof' of your claim?" No, it's a reference to ill health caused.....
» 24/01/2017 1:32:39 AM ttbn: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/port-augusta-is-sas-cancer-hotsp.....
» 23/01/2017 5:18:40 PM Hasbeen, The pylons aren't falling over because of melting; wind damage is the problem, a.....
» 23/01/2017 12:17:31 PM rehctub, I take that to mean you've got no evidence at all, for in the real world there's .....
» 22/01/2017 10:50:00 PM Shadow, 'Tis true that when the highly polluting Hazelwood power station closes, the pric.....
» 22/01/2017 8:29:09 PM Shadow, I was living overseas at the turn of the millennium, so my knowledge of the severe.....
» 22/01/2017 5:00:11 PM SA is fully functional; it is not a failed state and nor is it becoming one. However it is.....
» 21/01/2017 10:26:31 PM rehctub, what is the basis for your claim that this invalidates the underemployment number.....
» 16/01/2017 11:38:41 AM There is one major error in this article: "nfrastructure spending involving private-p.....
» 16/01/2017 10:19:58 AM curmudgeonathome, " I would point out that the writer assumes that a thriving econo.....
» 15/01/2017 3:33:43 PM Hasbeen, do you seriously believe that? Or are you just trolling? Anyone who's been to un.....
» 14/01/2017 2:04:09 AM Hasbeen. "This one little statement, "the promotion of collective interests ove.....
» 6/01/2017 1:07:02 PM Don't the environmental mitigation measures include bridges so the koalas can get across t.....
» 30/12/2016 11:03:54 AM "Since NAPLAN destroys elements of cognitive behaviour in children" This is an e.....
» 29/12/2016 4:42:51 PM Bazz, I can think of three possible explanations: 1) You misunderstood or misremembered .....
» 29/12/2016 12:40:13 PM Bazz, "It is a very brutal fact but cousin marriage is so wide spread that if the pra.....
» 29/12/2016 11:00:09 AM Those who call for budget repair are betraying the workers! Unlike in Keating's time, whe.....
» 28/12/2016 5:52:55 PM Joe, Bugsy provided the link, so why didn't you read it? She told Centrelink about the m.....
» 28/12/2016 12:52:09 PM This was a very sensible article... apart from the last sentence: "A second Arab Stat.....
» 14/12/2016 10:32:41 AM Moronic article! If you look at the employment rate rather than the unemployment rate, you.....
» 14/12/2016 12:06:16 AM For a more sensible view, see http://www.smh.com.au/business/-gt8j2j.html.....
» 11/12/2016 6:59:10 PM One long time critic of the simulus has written a report saying it was a waste of money. W.....
» 9/12/2016 1:02:56 PM "But the large supply of power from wind farms has destroyed the ability of the gas f.....
» 6/12/2016 6:56:43 PM "In 2008 the student-run QUT Guild's endowment lost almost 50 per cent of its net wor.....
» 1/12/2016 11:28:06 AM progressive pat and runner, This has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with socialism. __________.....
» 30/11/2016 7:26:31 PM Old Man, you could do wih a dose of reality yourself — you're greatly overestimating the p.....
» 30/11/2016 3:20:28 PM "The problem isn't a lack of highly qualified graduates. The problem is a lack of job.....
» 30/11/2016 2:07:15 PM “The most prominent right in socialism is freedom from economic exploitation” Does Doroth.....
» 22/11/2016 9:39:16 PM How much flaring is still occurring, Alan B? I thought the large scale flaring had ceased .....
» 19/11/2016 12:05:28 AM mac, You were the one using shallow rhetoric. Regardless of whether SA should build such .....
» 18/11/2016 3:44:43 PM mac, It's loaded rhetoric like that that's a big part of the problem. Are you so anti-SA .....
» 18/11/2016 10:26:18 AM "While some blame immigration, most recognise that the real threat comes from global .....
» 17/11/2016 12:46:18 PM runner, just how do you imagine they could do that?.....
» 17/11/2016 11:15:42 AM Deluded article! Far from being fantasists who want to override the law, they're lawyers .....
» 16/11/2016 1:16:16 PM Shadow, Since when have CCGTs been less adaptable to swinging load than coal fired power .....
» 16/11/2016 12:40:05 PM Luciferase. You miss my point about hydro: turbine capacity can be increased without incr.....
» 16/11/2016 9:35:00 AM Why the false dichotomy? Gender neutral uniforms are to the only alternative to badly desi.....
» 15/11/2016 3:24:24 PM ttbn, Separation of church and state does not mean the state should curtail the activities.....
» 15/11/2016 2:04:35 PM No, EJ, it's not a class struggle. I'm not suggesting reducing Australian wages. You seem .....
» 15/11/2016 12:37:25 PM Aspley, The problem with that argument is that not al those charity shops are church owned.....
» 15/11/2016 12:09:13 PM Shadow, A simple way to make it manageable and fair?? That's complete rubbish; it's just a.....
» 14/11/2016 10:39:32 PM Shadow, Much of Britain's council housing was sold off at a huge discount, and the council.....
» 14/11/2016 3:55:09 PM EJ, 1. Why do you want to make Australians poorer, and Australian businesses less competit.....
» 14/11/2016 2:45:56 PM The fact that there are people who think we need a Trump in Australia shows us exactly why.....
» 14/11/2016 1:02:00 PM Luciferase (continued) "Why would SA need more renewables if it could buy nuclear ge.....
» 14/11/2016 12:56:58 PM Shadow, Yes, of course I know that CCGT are less efficient at ramping up and down than OC.....
» 13/11/2016 7:51:33 PM Shadow, Allocation of wealth enables more wealth to be created. But generally it would be.....
» 7/11/2016 8:36:54 PM Shadow, I don't think any of Pelican Point had been officially mothballed, but the fact t.....
» 7/11/2016 10:08:05 AM Shadow, You seem to be implying that SA's gas fired generators were running at capacity o.....
» 6/11/2016 6:36:55 PM Shadow, Far from highlighting the unreliability of renewables, your two examples highlight.....
» 6/11/2016 2:16:35 PM GDP isn't a measure of how we are doing. GDP is a measure of how much we are doing. Howev.....
» 6/11/2016 1:49:32 AM Raycom, "The intermittency of renewables (wind and solar) causes supply reliability .....
» 5/11/2016 10:31:05 PM Referundemdrivensocienty, Who owned the voting machines in 2000? Isn't it more likely th.....
» 5/11/2016 7:45:55 PM Shadow, I never claimed all costs of renewables were illusory. But most of the hidden cos.....
» 4/11/2016 1:38:28 PM It's not a stuffup and it's not a scam. It's a blatant ripoff! Queensland and NSW aren't .....
» 4/11/2016 1:31:58 PM What evidence is there for Snowdon's claim that end-of-life costs are similar regardless o.....
» 4/11/2016 1:20:05 PM ttbn, I don't have the costs to hand, which is why my original response to you was a ques.....
» 3/11/2016 9:17:54 AM ttbn, When the cost of the respiratory problems it causes are factored un, is it really so.....
» 30/10/2016 12:47:09 AM Hi Lefty, There's a lot more to the manufacturing process than jsut fabrication. The value.....
» 29/10/2016 5:52:12 PM Hasbeen, You seem to be a bit ignorant of what's really going on. See http://eemg.uq.edu......
» 28/10/2016 2:26:07 PM Chris, 'Tis not globalisation that's turning over large parts of the economy to a small n.....
» 28/10/2016 11:40:34 AM ttbn, Your assumption that the locally made goods are of higher quality doesn't always ma.....
» 24/10/2016 8:08:46 PM Shadow, I am aware of the use of feedin tariffs to cross subsidise renewable energy. The .....
» 24/10/2016 1:50:00 AM Shadow, I share your concern, but not your conclusions, about the costs of renewables. Th.....
» 21/10/2016 10:16:38 AM Shadow, I don't have a fantasy about endless free money. Of course there's a cost, but I .....
» 20/10/2016 1:08:53 AM Shadow, You're making the mistake of assuming that bulk electricity prices will skyrocket.....
» 19/10/2016 3:26:48 PM You've got it the wrong way round, Luciferase: a woman should not be put in a position whe.....
» 19/10/2016 12:37:38 PM Justin Campbell is displaying his ignorance: SA has NOT lost its baseload energy capacity,.....
» 17/10/2016 4:11:29 PM Armchair, Private central banking is more a myth than a problem. Despite what conspiracy .....
» 17/10/2016 11:37:06 AM "The Reserve Bank Governor noted in his testimony that Australia’s economic growth of.....
» 17/10/2016 1:40:32 AM Has anyone else noticed how opponents of renewable energy almost invariably treat every te.....
» 14/10/2016 7:14:46 PM I don't think any politician in the history of the world has truthfully claimed there is n.....
» 11/10/2016 9:53:24 AM runner, what precisely do you mean by "the wind farm debacle in SA"?.....
» 11/10/2016 8:48:19 AM "The Weekend Australian launched an attack on 'intermittent sources' with Environment.....
» 11/10/2016 8:31:48 AM Someone who could make Masters profitable would be worth that much. She clearly wasn't!.....
» 9/10/2016 8:10:00 PM Craig, "I made the claim deliberately with a specific intent and made the fact known .....
» 8/10/2016 9:23:29 PM ttbn, If you have proof that it's fact, why don't you post a link to verify it? Then we'l.....
» 8/10/2016 9:17:34 PM Craig, Unfortunately you've effectively shot yourself in the mouth with your deliberately.....
» 7/10/2016 3:15:09 PM Craig, I'm primarily a transport planner, but there's a lot of overlap between that and r.....
» 6/10/2016 11:17:53 AM Bazz, Since I replied to your post I realised that we were slightly at cross purposes; I .....
» 5/10/2016 8:40:43 PM Bazz, No, it wasn't very dirty AC, though ti may have been very dirty DC. Regenerative br.....
» 5/10/2016 5:11:11 PM Bazz, It wasn't just the wind turbines that the increasing load caused to disconnect - it.....
» 5/10/2016 12:51:59 PM ABC news came to the opposite conclusion, so I had a look at the report itself, which is a.....
» 5/10/2016 11:15:42 AM ttbn, I didn't mention unremarkable weather. What I described as unremarkable was small .....
» 4/10/2016 6:06:42 PM ttbn, So you were just trolling? I guess that explains a lot, though I really can't see t.....
» 4/10/2016 12:46:04 PM Shadow, The most efficient way to provide the infrastructure would be something based on .....
» 3/10/2016 9:28:09 PM ttbn, "I live in Adelaide," As do I. "and know where the power comes from......
» 3/10/2016 3:55:08 PM [sorry about the autocorrect error: where it says "powerless" it should be ".....
» 3/10/2016 3:50:24 PM ttbn, before you dismiss me as "wrong as usual" and go shooting your mouth off, .....
» 3/10/2016 1:30:10 PM Shadow, Of course it's a cockup of monumental proportions. But the blaming of renewables .....
» 3/10/2016 1:26:39 AM If you think renewables played a part in SA's statewide power cut, perhaps you can suggest.....
» 1/10/2016 12:00:03 AM runner, Why are you spreading lies about renewable energy? Though the lack of power is c.....
» 27/09/2016 2:13:00 PM 'Tis a great tragedy. The Turks and Kurds are natural allies. If they'd been working toget.....
» 22/09/2016 11:27:17 PM The most worrying thing about these tactical torch ads are the blatant lies they tell. Ear.....
» 22/09/2016 12:13:21 PM I think this article underestimates the cost savings that technology will bring. But I kno.....
» 21/09/2016 1:31:58 PM Rhys, that misrepresentation is insignificant compared to his main misrepresentation: The.....
» 21/09/2016 11:21:32 AM The main problem is economic mismanagement. The government could ensure that enough jobs a.....
» 20/09/2016 10:33:43 AM Bob Fernley-Jones, Tim Flannery's "whoppers" are just a media creation – he nev.....
» 18/09/2016 1:06:19 AM No, ttbn, I don't support totalitarianism. But the right of free speech is not absolute an.....
» 17/09/2016 11:29:01 AM Shadow, 18C is about stopping hate speech, while 18D, which provides exceptions to 18C, is.....
» 17/09/2016 11:17:16 AM Alan B, It is well known that water vapour is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than ca.....
» 16/09/2016 11:04:11 PM Sliggy, the coolant is a metaphor. The point is, increasing the temperature of the coolant.....
» 16/09/2016 9:52:25 PM Chris, Creditworthiness is certainly a problem, but liquidity isn't the limiting factor –.....
» 16/09/2016 1:48:47 PM I'm still flummoxed as to how any engineer can make the statement "How can anything t.....
» 15/09/2016 11:14:06 PM Bazz, GDP is a measure of economic activity. GDP is NOT a measure of wealth, though it ten.....
» 15/09/2016 10:39:08 PM EQ, That you, or indeed anyone else, regard Makin's rant as a good article tells a far mo.....
» 15/09/2016 2:21:54 PM Chris, No, purely financial transactions are not included in GDP. GDP only includes the m.....
» 15/09/2016 1:25:38 PM (continued) Maybe a quarter of a century ago it was poorly appreciated that a vibrant bus.....
» 15/09/2016 1:24:39 PM "Time tested" economic principles should mean those that have passed the test of.....
» 15/09/2016 10:55:22 AM Is Mise, > The next improvement to Road Safety wii be warning signs to warn of a warni.....
» 14/09/2016 6:08:22 PM The GDP figure is the best measure we have of the amount of economic activity that's occur.....
» 13/09/2016 1:31:42 PM Jardine, 1. Of course. Though it is so illogical that I'd dispute it even qualifies as a .....
» 13/09/2016 1:31:54 AM Jardine, 1. Of course that "one of reasoning" is an obvious non sequiter. I poi.....
» 12/09/2016 1:50:07 PM plantagenet, > As I see it if the Can Tram is built there'll be a lot of economic ref.....
» 12/09/2016 1:38:31 PM Jardine, I'm glad you now recognise that markets aren't perfect and that you're willing t.....
» 12/09/2016 3:06:45 AM Jardine (continued), The worst thing for the government to do is attempt a procyclical re.....
» 12/09/2016 3:04:27 AM Jardine (continued), The big problem is that you wrongly see all government intervention .....
» 11/09/2016 6:25:21 PM Jardine (continued) What you stupidly assume to be inconsistent application of some basal .....
» 10/09/2016 12:34:02 PM Jardine, Further to my previous post: You have wrongly accused me of assuming that the di.....
» 10/09/2016 1:13:46 AM Jardine, I base my conclusion that the economy needs stimulus on the facts that: • a lot .....
» 10/09/2016 12:31:50 AM Mao started out as a hero and turned into a villain. Has anyone anywhere in the world ever.....
» 9/09/2016 2:27:01 AM Jardine, I dd not concede what's in issue between us. The fact that you thought I did hig.....
» 8/09/2016 3:36:41 AM Jardine, Inflation rates certainly are a criterion, just as (to use your previous example.....
» 7/09/2016 4:27:49 PM Jardine, Sorry, I wrote something other than what I meant to sa., and as a result I did n.....
» 6/09/2016 11:45:20 PM TruthHurtsGetOverIt, Of course! There's only one Republic of Macedonia, and it was part of.....
» 6/09/2016 7:50:25 PM Jardine, I was asking you to clarify the questions rather than restate them. You haven't,.....
» 6/09/2016 2:15:43 PM Bazz, Arbitrary spending cuts don't lead to greater efficiency, they lead to false econom.....
» 5/09/2016 8:19:07 PM Can someone please explain to me why those on the right are so opposed to the government m.....
» 5/09/2016 6:44:58 PM ttbn, if anyone else had said that, I'd've assumed they were being sarcastic......
» 5/09/2016 4:27:07 PM Lefty, With currency trades now done in milliseconds it makes very little difference what.....
» 5/09/2016 4:12:15 PM Hasbeen, rather than asking David (who's probably not here) to explain it, why don't you t.....
» 5/09/2016 12:25:31 PM Lefty One, Hitler was not a devout Catholic. Though he self identified as a Catholic (pro.....
» 5/09/2016 11:47:11 AM David, runner and Jardine are 100% wrong on this. Firstly, governments should take into a.....
» 5/09/2016 11:25:36 AM Lefty, More by good luck than anything else, the Howard government, with Peter Costello a.....
» 4/09/2016 10:14:55 PM Loudmouth, Wars in East Timor and the former Yugoslavia generally weren't seen as a left .....
» 4/09/2016 9:33:26 PM Lofty/LEFTY ONE/Chris Now that you've got my name right at last, what would you like me to.....
» 4/09/2016 4:04:10 PM Geoff, If it already seems to you that we're reaching the limits with respect to intermitt.....
» 4/09/2016 12:36:34 PM Lofty One, No, I'm not employed in banking or finance. And from watching ABC's The Busine.....
» 3/09/2016 8:07:44 PM Geoff of Perth, Opposition to renewable energy does not stack up, as it relies on false a.....
» 3/09/2016 11:16:39 AM Jardine, Wrong. You are only displaying your confused failure to understand what you're ta.....
» 2/09/2016 8:14:24 PM Bazz, QE and interest rate adjustments are working as much as could be expected, but there.....
» 2/09/2016 8:12:27 PM Chris, It depends what you mean by "massive inflation". The money supply is set.....
» 2/09/2016 11:05:35 AM Loudmouth, they can never go back. Haven't you ever heard of the Permian Extinction?.....
» 2/09/2016 12:26:07 AM Amazingly, both William Hill (the author) and most of the commenters have overlooked the f.....
» 1/09/2016 11:05:48 PM It isn't prime agricultural land. It's too wet and stormy to be of much value for farming......
» 1/09/2016 10:55:37 PM The Bank of England did indeed start out in private hands, but was nationalised in 1946. U.....
» 1/09/2016 5:46:57 PM G'day again Lofty One, Despite what some conspiracy theorists' websites claim, all the wo.....
» 1/09/2016 3:25:03 PM Congratulations, Jennifer, on rising to the challenge and writing an intelligent article a.....
» 1/09/2016 3:09:10 PM G'day LEFTY ONE, Someone has to get further into debt to increase the expansion of the eco.....
» 1/09/2016 10:41:10 AM QE only helps a little bit. It's much better to get fiscal policy to do the heavy lifting,.....
» 31/08/2016 6:33:04 PM ttbn, who reported that?.....
» 31/08/2016 6:30:45 PM Socialism is no more a failed concept than capitalism is. Both are pretty nebulous concept.....
» 31/08/2016 12:44:13 PM runner, you seem to have trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality. The Greens and Labor.....
» 31/08/2016 11:17:36 AM The key is in the Treasurer's pocket. But he won't unlock the door because he's too busy t.....
» 30/08/2016 4:55:13 PM Move on, runner. The world has indeed woken up to your hoax, which is why nobody's taken t.....
» 29/08/2016 1:20:04 PM (continued) A plebiscite that politicians can ignore would be a waste of money. But we sh.....
» 29/08/2016 1:18:50 PM Paul, Media coverage on this issue has been overwhelmingly one sided, which is a problem .....
» 29/08/2016 12:41:19 AM Leo, considering your track record of considering all the science that contradicts your co.....
» 27/08/2016 10:58:54 AM rehctub (continued) "More importantly... why cant we give everyone enough cash to pay.....
» 27/08/2016 10:56:56 AM rehctub, Of course I can provide reasons why: "Aidan, by avoiding a recession we hav.....
» 27/08/2016 9:58:12 AM Armchair, "- Then we have other claims that say greenhouse gasses reflect heating ene.....
» 27/08/2016 1:42:32 AM rehctub, can you try writing comments based on what's actually happened instead of on what.....
» 26/08/2016 11:30:33 AM ttbn, Do you think there should be no international law? Or do you just think Australia sh.....
» 26/08/2016 10:48:45 AM No, the same rules don't apply to visa overstayers; the offshore detention centres are onl.....
» 25/08/2016 10:50:04 AM 'What would we think if thousands of Japanese wanted to descend on Darwin to celebrate the.....
» 24/08/2016 10:55:38 AM Yuyutsu, Sorry I wasn't clear enough. They will resist anything that weakens their power,.....
» 24/08/2016 10:23:32 AM Rather than having a plebiscite which the politicians can ignore, we should have a referen.....
» 23/08/2016 9:18:42 PM Armchair, have you seen what else is on that site? It's a very unreliable source!.....
» 23/08/2016 2:45:57 PM Yuyutsu, that's something they've seriously considered, and it would be an enormous improv.....
» 23/08/2016 2:15:50 PM China's leaders are thoroughly corrupt, and will fiercely resist any attempt to make them .....
» 22/08/2016 1:21:05 PM "Don't expect to see much progress on repairing the budget, controlling spending or r.....
» 18/08/2016 5:36:32 PM Jennifer, did you notice what the graph you had so much trouble linking to showed? Not glo.....
» 18/08/2016 11:25:14 AM rehctub, Wanting NOT to slash emissions by 50% is nothing short of environmental vandalism.....
» 18/08/2016 11:02:46 AM JBowyer, Who do you mean by "these thieves"? Do you have any evidence that CFC.....
» 18/08/2016 10:25:16 AM JBowyer, Just because the Y2K bug did not cause any serious problems doesn't mean it was a.....
» 17/08/2016 4:20:33 PM The Peak CBD concern was a late 20th century phenomenon. Since then our CBDs have done qui.....
» 15/08/2016 9:15:49 PM EmperorJulian, Bogans and chavs are not the same at all. Although at least half the charac.....
» 15/08/2016 5:29:16 PM McCackie, Your whinging may have seemed credible if there were a direct connection between.....
» 12/08/2016 11:52:36 AM The opportunity cost of a company tax cut is enormous. As the treasury document linked to .....
» 12/08/2016 3:08:00 AM ttbn, "Do you think that the researchers just prefer left wing extremism and corrupti.....
» 10/08/2016 2:59:24 PM Jay, Many bogans do know they're bogans, and some are proud to be bogans. Though some wo.....
» 10/08/2016 2:39:29 PM Alan B., The 51% oxygen claim on which your argument is based is completely wrong. See ht.....
» 9/08/2016 2:38:07 PM Bazz, It's the cost of labour input, not energy input, that's likely to be the dealbreake.....
» 8/08/2016 6:43:15 PM interactive, "You should read biology, particularly the part about food chains and s.....
» 8/08/2016 6:00:30 PM ttbn, You miss the point. Instead of reducing the minimum wage to a level where a job cu.....
» 8/08/2016 2:30:46 PM Tombee, it goes without saying that hydrogen on its own is not the solution to an energy s.....
» 8/08/2016 12:08:34 PM We can reduce unemployment by reducing wages, or we can reduce unemployment by stimulating.....
» 7/08/2016 6:06:35 PM Yuyutsu, Allowing nature to take its course would be much crueller than the status quo in.....
» 4/08/2016 4:12:19 PM interactive, The Left is a very broad category. Not everyone on the left agrees with all.....
» 4/08/2016 3:40:22 PM Jayb, "Even if it's moving to a new Country," Yes. "not accepting their C.....
» 4/08/2016 12:00:06 PM Loudmouth, The article didn't mention terrorism. Terrorists don't deserve tolerance; they.....
» 4/08/2016 10:06:56 AM No, I'm restating my position and explaining why your misinterpretation of it was wrong. .....
» 3/08/2016 7:16:25 PM ttbn, That's a very common myth used by those on the right to discredit the left, but if .....
» 3/08/2016 4:42:39 PM Armchair, "Its not a fair go for everyone if you end up destroying everything.".....
» 3/08/2016 1:53:51 PM ttbn, "I'm wasn't aware that the Left even had a moral basis." That would expla.....
» 3/08/2016 1:46:40 PM runner, Firstly I do not have any insane gw faith. I have rational beliefs based on evide.....
» 3/08/2016 10:26:55 AM It certainly wasn't census data that they used to justify removal of rail services from th.....
» 2/08/2016 1:43:22 PM Not quite the only place, Rojama – there's also parts of NZ and Chile......
» 2/08/2016 1:37:13 PM runner, you seem to have abandoned Christianity for the false religion of climate denialsi.....
» 2/08/2016 12:48:10 PM Jardine (continued) "And no violence is used to maintain the State and enforce obedi.....
» 2/08/2016 12:47:22 PM Struth, Jardine, you do have terrible trouble with comprehension! "So money has what.....
» 1/08/2016 1:32:45 PM "Labor released its policy during the election campaign promising to match the Govern.....
» 1/08/2016 1:14:03 PM Jardine, Nearly everything is priced in actual money nowadays, so gold's "monetary ch.....
» 31/07/2016 11:43:52 PM Jardine, "Isn't the reason why it would be stupid of the government to assign a value.....
» 31/07/2016 3:40:38 PM There's no contradiction. Money, when used as money, has the value that the government as.....
» 31/07/2016 3:27:45 PM Good news: yes, you are entitled to fresh air! Bad news: you'll have to collect it yoursel.....
» 31/07/2016 3:02:58 AM Jardine, it's quite simple: Money has face value, assigned by the government. This is wha.....
» 30/07/2016 1:56:15 AM Jardine, "We've just established that your theory of money contradicts your theory of.....
» 29/07/2016 11:39:07 PM That depends on the context. It's certainly not stupid when it's in reply to something tha.....
» 29/07/2016 4:18:42 PM Alan B., Simply put, as usual you don't have a clue, given simple DNA comparisons, well a.....
» 29/07/2016 3:23:53 PM Turnbull's decided not to nominate him. Probably for the wrong reasons, though he hasn't e.....
» 29/07/2016 2:04:28 PM Jardine, That too is correct. Do you agree that it would be stupid for the government to.....
» 29/07/2016 12:16:23 PM Alan B., Dingoes were semidomesticated by the Aboriginal population. And anyway, they're d.....
» 29/07/2016 10:18:16 AM Yes, Jardine, that is correct......
» 28/07/2016 8:51:17 PM ttbn, Even if there are some people beyond redempton, it's certain that not everyone who .....
» 28/07/2016 2:30:54 PM Jardine, It is those who idly dismiss comments, instead of engaging with them, who operat.....
» 28/07/2016 11:40:43 AM ttbn, "There is no 'dentention disease'" Yes there is. Detaining people in crue.....
» 27/07/2016 7:49:41 PM Alan B., If every object you can touch had some value, there would be no dumps because eve.....
» 27/07/2016 12:47:37 PM The gold standard was a catastrophic policy that resulted in hyperinflation in countries t.....
» 27/07/2016 12:24:39 PM Rudd would not be a disaster, but it's moot anyway because he has virtually no chance of g.....
» 25/07/2016 2:38:52 PM Shadow, Looking at your "best case scenario", apart from your typo (you said it.....
» 24/07/2016 4:08:08 PM Joe, "I was using the term 'socialism' in the old Marxist sense of 'communism'. The .....
» 24/07/2016 3:49:58 PM Shadow, I'm well aware of that. But I was under the impression that you were claiming tha.....
» 23/07/2016 10:37:26 PM Shadow, There's a very big difference between not being commercially viable and not even m.....
» 23/07/2016 6:11:59 PM david f, Didn't Marx predict that doing things his way would be more efficient? If so, w.....
» 22/07/2016 9:49:25 PM Luciferase, what you mistake for hubris was nothing of the sort. I asked a straightforward.....
» 22/07/2016 6:22:23 PM Shadow, "Exactly, by now it should be dawning on you. For example, the running costs.....
» 22/07/2016 2:50:28 AM Hasbeen, Everyone knows the capital cost of solar and wind power is high. But you seem to.....
» 21/07/2016 1:57:49 PM I dont ignore the science, Leo. But you do. Take another look at your claims: 1. "Ov.....
» 21/07/2016 12:32:49 PM JBowyer (continued) ...They set up Infrastructure Australia to avoid us having that proble.....
» 21/07/2016 12:32:05 PM JBowyer, "Aiden probably our greatest problem in the world is the fact that Governme.....
» 20/07/2016 9:45:20 PM Shadow, "The only way a solar thermal plant could run without a huge feed in tariff w.....
» 20/07/2016 9:41:34 PM Leo, there is no evidence that the human effect on climate is trivial. But there is overwh.....
» 20/07/2016 5:40:29 PM Leo, with what level of precision and confidence do we have to be able to measure somethin.....
» 20/07/2016 2:06:36 AM (Apologies for the typo: my reply to Shadow should of course have said "unsupported c.....
» 19/07/2016 11:53:18 PM Shadow, "The solar thermal plant would never replace the coal plant," Supported.....
» 19/07/2016 4:59:48 PM JBowyer, "They are always somewhere else" Yes, that's the problem. We don't trea.....
» 19/07/2016 4:30:52 PM (sorry about the typo; as you've probably guessed, it should say "thing" rather .....
» 19/07/2016 3:06:20 PM SAINTS, Yes, like 99.9% of the population I don't follow Senate Estimates Committee Repor.....
» 19/07/2016 2:50:11 PM JBowyer, This anti pioneer attitude is a big part of the problem. Somewhere has to be the.....
» 19/07/2016 1:07:38 PM The problem isn't that the politicians are committed to the green dream; it's that they're.....
» 19/07/2016 2:38:50 AM Australia is a free society. Nobody should be deported for merely holding a political view.....
» 18/07/2016 11:06:14 PM SAINTS, I can not yet ay that with certainty, as I do not know exactly what it is the gov.....
» 18/07/2016 9:22:43 PM runner, "Yeah he just should of called her a rude hysterical woman." No, that w.....
» 18/07/2016 6:52:07 PM Most of the hysteria about hysteria could've been avoided if Price had clarified to Van th.....
» 18/07/2016 6:27:44 PM Don Aitkin, Exactly the same way as we currently do! When we need to buy things from Japa.....
» 18/07/2016 12:32:55 PM Hi Joe, Yes you're missing something. Or rather you're missing several things. Countries.....
» 18/07/2016 2:57:39 AM Ian McClintock,, "Oceanic pH is clearly alkaline" Duh! "and despite the c.....
» 16/07/2016 3:13:09 PM Ian McClintock, If I wasn't aware of what Henry's Law is, I wouldn't've referred to it my.....
» 15/07/2016 10:06:25 AM Proper accountability depends on people knowing the truth: Australia is a sovereign curren.....
» 14/07/2016 11:06:08 PM Ian McClintock (continued) "No evidence is available however that this increased car.....
» 14/07/2016 11:04:23 PM Ian McClintock, The climate is warming the way a CO2 increase the size we have would be p.....
» 14/07/2016 5:56:19 PM SAINTS, I wouldn't've said it if it wasn't what I really believe. I believe it because it.....
» 14/07/2016 2:56:49 AM Ian McClintock, WTF would it take to prove to you that increasing atmospheric CO2 is the .....
» 12/07/2016 1:31:04 PM Armchair (continued) We're not broke. We have unlimited credit. Stop worrying about the d.....
» 12/07/2016 1:15:24 PM Armchair, Interesting scenario. If it's your own central bank, you don't actually need bo.....
» 11/07/2016 4:10:08 PM It's not just oppositiont o nuclear power that's holding it back. Economic obstacles are p.....
» 11/07/2016 1:02:48 AM ttbn(continued), "I have only ever heard that phrase from you - certainly not from a.....
» 11/07/2016 1:01:00 AM plerdsus, It doesn't matter that the Federal government can't print foreign exchange, as .....
» 11/07/2016 12:58:00 AM Luciferase, Right now the inflation rate's below the RBA's target rate. That's mainly bec.....
» 10/07/2016 7:26:38 PM Geoff of Perth, I think you misunderstand what I'm saying. Debt is indeed of great signif.....
» 9/07/2016 3:09:10 PM The "cheesecutter" nickname for the wire safety fences originates with those who.....
» 8/07/2016 2:12:21 PM ttbn, Enough? How can it be enough when the lack of understanding of our true financial p.....
» 8/07/2016 11:04:17 AM The ending of the article is a non sequiter. Australia is financially sovereign. No matter.....
» 6/07/2016 8:18:44 PM Illuminate, yes. Transform, no. Most of what it can do is already being done, both by tho.....
» 4/07/2016 2:09:02 PM Yuyutsu, it's not the international trade agreements that were disastrous for SA, it's the.....
» 3/07/2016 11:38:05 PM You obviously didn't see John Safran's documentary on SBS last week. I suggest you do (it'.....
» 1/07/2016 8:37:44 PM rehctub, Regarding your question that started the thread, I'd rather have my say. But I'm.....
» 1/07/2016 3:13:34 PM Hasbeen, Coal isn't that cheap. Even disregarding the huge environmental costs, the cost o.....
» 1/07/2016 12:10:34 PM 6% unemployment is still much too high, and it's even higher in some areas. Plus there's a.....
» 1/07/2016 11:53:36 AM If you look at how little our governments have spent on infrastructure, you'll see that it.....
» 1/07/2016 11:36:01 AM Philip S, Unemployment figures are easy to manipulate. GDP figures can't be manipulated so.....
» 1/07/2016 10:46:24 AM "Like Calwell, Bill Shorten plans to subsidise uncompetitive industries and run a bud.....
» 1/07/2016 10:13:39 AM runner, I don't think Trump says what he means and means what he says at all. But if what.....
» 30/06/2016 9:23:44 PM Roses1, "We deliberately made conservative assumptions so we couldn't be accused of .....
» 30/06/2016 8:14:49 PM Shadow, Both parties have long used scare campaigns to some extent, not always successful.....
» 30/06/2016 12:25:21 PM Ben Rose, The modelling you present is based on assumptions that make electricity more ex.....
» 29/06/2016 6:33:04 PM Shadow, do you think we should be concerned that nearly half a century ago Tony Windsor be.....
» 29/06/2016 1:52:12 PM Michael Knox, The reason a relationship between corporate tax cuts and growth in GDP is s.....
» 29/06/2016 10:57:13 AM diver dan, Are you sure you've only got two lower house candidates in your seat? I though.....
» 28/06/2016 11:28:19 AM Bazz, Is it on this list? http://legacy.abd.org.uk/bypass.htm Europe raised environmental.....
» 28/06/2016 12:09:25 AM Haven't I told you this already, Arjay? "Bail in" does not mean deposit confisc.....
» 27/06/2016 10:43:24 PM Arjay, Central bankers are our servants, not our masters. Admittedly they're not serving .....
» 27/06/2016 9:50:26 PM Bazz, I'm intrigued. Which road was that? ______________________________________________.....
» 27/06/2016 5:28:10 PM Hasbeen, no smart person knows that or will ever know that, for the simple reason that it'.....
» 27/06/2016 2:49:15 PM NathenJ, The decision to manufacture it in India does not adversely affect the Indians' q.....
» 27/06/2016 2:02:17 PM runner, unless that's a mindless insult, can you be a bit more specific? What socialist do.....
» 27/06/2016 12:15:58 PM Peter Lang, nobody is saying we can CONTROL the climate. But your claim that "They wo.....
» 27/06/2016 11:34:22 AM There are three ways we can compete: The first (perhaps surprisingly) is the do nothing o.....
» 27/06/2016 10:58:35 AM Unfortunately it's something that Shorten and Turnbull are both doing. Abbott showed scare.....
» 26/06/2016 2:47:39 PM No, Nick, non violent action NEVER EVER does violence, and the claim that it does is usual.....
» 25/06/2016 8:52:47 PM The government is subsidising the product, not the manufacturing process. It's none of our.....
» 23/06/2016 10:49:31 AM Wind and solar do work here, and as I'm writing this they're providing 12% of Australia's .....
» 22/06/2016 11:08:26 AM The problem is that immigration is an easy scapegoat for governments' failure to provide i.....
» 21/06/2016 2:56:27 PM phanto, I'm no fan of McGuire, but your attempt to blame McGuire for the comments of the m.....
» 18/06/2016 10:17:26 AM It is indeed about values. Bill's not blind or stupid, but he is committed to regional dev.....
» 17/06/2016 12:11:18 PM SF, "It never hurt a child to be smacked." If that's true, how could it have had.....
» 14/06/2016 9:19:11 PM More than anything else, gold prices are driven by speculation. There've been a lot of gol.....
» 14/06/2016 10:23:32 AM Luciferase, You're right about technology, but the example you gave was a bad one, as it .....
» 14/06/2016 10:18:13 AM Shadow, I think the councils are being merged because Baird considered them too obstructi.....
» 13/06/2016 9:43:02 AM Just spotted a rather silly mistake in what I've written above: Where I said: So if infla.....
» 11/06/2016 12:29:37 PM Bazz, If Venezuela had been sensible enough to float it s currency, it wouldn't be in thi.....
» 10/06/2016 11:37:21 PM Loudmouth, You misunderstand completely. Australia owns the RBA. The RBA has unlimited c.....
» 10/06/2016 1:24:43 PM Both parties have promised a return to surplus. Both parties have previously promised a re.....
» 10/06/2016 12:45:48 PM Don Aitkin whinges about the silliness of the Greens' energy policy then makes claims that.....
» 10/06/2016 1:38:49 AM Further to my previous comment, it was actually that day (Thursday) that the SMH published.....
» 9/06/2016 12:06:45 PM Shadow, I have not made any "fanciful economics claims that have no basis in theory .....
» 9/06/2016 11:54:32 AM "SA still suffers from a substantial insecurity complex." That's largely because.....
» 9/06/2016 11:36:21 AM More foreign investment doesn't necessarily mean more investment, because a similar result.....
» 8/06/2016 12:08:10 AM Nice try, Shadow, but you're the one making the extraordinary claims and not supplying any.....
» 7/06/2016 4:23:35 PM Shadow, "Read the papers, this is not an old issue" Not living in Sydney, most .....
» 7/06/2016 12:19:50 PM Shadow, have you got any evidence that "most were technically bankrupt"? No dou.....
» 7/06/2016 12:11:39 PM He's running a candidate in my seat but I'll not be giving them my first preference. I had.....
» 7/06/2016 11:50:24 AM I agree. But how come you're not on NEIS?.....
» 1/06/2016 11:52:28 AM Shadow - TRUE or FALSE: 1. Au pairs are not covered by Australia's wage regulation syste.....
» 31/05/2016 1:18:19 PM Roses1, why did you cowrite a paper showing a cost increase instead of assuming a lower co.....
» 30/05/2016 3:40:41 PM Shadow, I don't think we should impose any more limitations. Even those who drop out lear.....
» 30/05/2016 2:47:11 PM Alan B. you seem to have an extremely poor understanding both of my position and of the si.....
» 30/05/2016 2:37:35 AM drab, I repeat: Europe is very often used as a scapegoat for domestic political problems. .....
» 27/05/2016 10:33:19 PM Luciferase, "Printing more currency devalues that already in circulation," Tru.....
» 27/05/2016 5:18:51 PM Hi Joe, The hours of au pairs in general are irrelevant. No doubt some work 8 or more hou.....
» 27/05/2016 4:51:21 PM ttbn, Though money alone won't solve every problem, there's a lot it can do. And there's .....
» 27/05/2016 2:13:34 PM Shadow, Did any of Di Natale's au pairs allege underpayment? Or that they were required to.....
» 27/05/2016 3:09:34 AM ttbn, "You think John Stone, an ex-head of Treasury before he went into politics, is .....
» 26/05/2016 2:13:03 PM There are certainly some deep problems with the political and economic structure of the Eu.....
» 26/05/2016 11:10:56 AM An idiotic critique based on fear of the impossible! The Australian government has no deb.....
» 25/05/2016 11:43:39 AM Viv (continued) Nobody wants us to "step backwards down the energy ladder to the day.....
» 25/05/2016 11:43:02 AM Viv, are you being deliberately disingenuous? Or are you really that stupid? It's true th.....
» 23/05/2016 11:26:28 PM calwest (continued) "Is there any level of spending which you would think would be pr.....
» 23/05/2016 11:25:04 PM Calwest, The Rudd government's spending kept us out of recession, but it was not grossly .....
» 21/05/2016 11:22:55 AM It's just you. Bill's personal approval rating is still low, despite the recent rise. Aus.....
» 21/05/2016 3:11:04 AM It seems to have escaped Tom Biegler's attention that the EROEI of wind power is surpassin.....
» 21/05/2016 12:01:47 AM Armchair, "Just remember that 'sustainability' also means 'global depopulation'".....
» 21/05/2016 12:01:02 AM onthebeach, Whether or not there's any need to buff Soros up is irrelevant; nobody has. B.....
» 20/05/2016 3:17:04 AM calwest, I'm not claiming spending to be a panacea. It doesn't intrinsically do much to ma.....
» 19/05/2016 8:56:19 PM Referundemdrivensocienty, have you ever seenany evidence at all that the Turkish governmen.....
» 19/05/2016 7:51:44 PM onthebeach, My intention was not to buff Soros up, but to counteract some of the spin and .....
» 19/05/2016 6:54:22 PM Shadow, Try thinking about things a bit more before you dismiss them as twaddle. "F.....
» 19/05/2016 2:55:54 PM Well, Hasbeen, if you want to be ultrapedantic, fuel is also needed to build the fossil fu.....
» 19/05/2016 2:15:10 PM The case for company tax cuts is very weak. Our dividend imputation system means that most.....
» 19/05/2016 2:49:30 AM As politically active billionaires go, George Soros is one of the better ones. Some of the.....
» 18/05/2016 11:01:30 AM ttbn, the reports said that someone tweeted "130% Muslim turnout", not that ther.....
» 18/05/2016 2:52:29 AM Bazz, If you are comparing systems then the overhead costs do indeed have to be counted. .....
» 18/05/2016 2:19:23 AM ttbn, Your use of spin, trying to associate opposing viewpoints with belief in fairies an.....
» 17/05/2016 5:38:12 PM plantagenet, I'll miss him, even though I disagree with him on most issues. Rights are im.....
» 17/05/2016 4:04:39 PM Bazz (continued) "Imagine, if you are game, the massive battery or similar device, t.....
» 17/05/2016 4:03:56 PM Bazz, "Aiden, apparently did not notice that the authors raised the same reservation .....
» 17/05/2016 1:40:26 PM Luciferase, "Whoopty doo!And what about when the energy invested has to come from so.....
» 17/05/2016 10:29:29 AM Hasbeen, considering the dodgy assumptions that last study had to make to contrive the con.....
» 17/05/2016 9:56:48 AM It is indeed a sad day. But taking to the streets isn't the answer. I'm not saying they sh.....
» 16/05/2016 9:12:01 PM The title of this thread is wrong – you should've said "negative net energy". ER.....
» 16/05/2016 12:44:37 PM Suseonline, You seem to be overlooking a few points: 1. The story is not credible. For a.....
» 13/05/2016 4:16:43 PM Hi Joe, Concessional loans are the best way to fund renewable energy infrastructure......
» 13/05/2016 4:03:45 PM Alan B, "if you like high speed rail, you'll like the new loop thing being currently.....
» 13/05/2016 3:22:04 PM Loudmouth (continued) "Given that this isn't happening, that wind towers are very li.....
» 13/05/2016 3:21:32 PM Hi Joe, "do you mean that the means of producing renewable energy - wind towers, sol.....
» 13/05/2016 2:49:33 AM JayB, Famines, Wars, Pandemics & disasters don't control the population at the moment. Th.....
» 12/05/2016 6:57:12 PM Bazz, you seem to have forgotten we have allies! Is there any good reason why we can't re.....
» 12/05/2016 11:53:46 AM Successful decentralization requires high speed rail. I'd be happy to move out to the stic.....
» 12/05/2016 11:49:59 AM No, onthebeach,I don't remain puzzled why parts of Sydney Harbour are not reclaimed to be .....
» 11/05/2016 2:53:03 PM Not being a Sydneysider, I'm a bit puzzled: why is everyone so keen to keep the developers.....
» 11/05/2016 3:27:21 AM Hasbeen, I don't dispute that there's more impenetrable scrub now, and I also know there .....
» 11/05/2016 2:55:43 AM CHERFUL, Libellous is entirely accurate. You falsely accused me of supporting terrorists......
» 11/05/2016 12:58:57 AM Shadow, what part of Labor's plan do you think would lead to a high unemployment economy w.....
» 10/05/2016 11:34:39 AM This article's based on the false premise that trains are only good for getting people to .....
» 9/05/2016 2:20:16 PM Alan B, it seems to be lost on you that not everyone is welcome in their ancestral home. .....
» 9/05/2016 3:17:03 AM Jay, A lot of evidence of human rights abuses in Sri Lanka is from those without a vested .....
» 8/05/2016 8:33:48 PM Why would Sanders be dangerous?.....
» 8/05/2016 8:03:04 PM CHERFUL — "You take the side of the Tamil Tigers agains the Sri Lankian government.&.....
» 8/05/2016 2:16:48 PM Referundemdrivensocienty, "Why does the media give these people the title of asylum s.....
» 6/05/2016 6:56:02 PM No, it's not just selfishness. If it were merely selfishness, we'd exploit them for our o.....
» 4/05/2016 9:30:27 PM Both. It wasn't good, but I was expecting worse......
» 4/05/2016 12:39:18 PM Shadow, Far from being suicide, the Reserve Bank printing money would not be harmful. The.....
» 4/05/2016 12:12:16 PM Hasbeen, rehctub and Loudmouth, It was known throughout the 20th century that solar panel.....
» 4/05/2016 1:31:53 AM Land locked country, Hasbeen? I think there's some big gaps in your geographical knowledge.....
» 3/05/2016 3:37:41 PM Bazz, The socialists of Venezuela are fools; not because they're socialists but because t.....
» 3/05/2016 12:15:52 PM ttbn (continued) "As for 'borrowing in Australian dollars', of course we do - conver.....
» 3/05/2016 12:08:15 PM Bazz, Technology is improving; so too should our standard of living. ___________________.....
» 30/04/2016 5:37:58 PM "Same thing with my wages then too then a? we should only tax that portion of my wage.....
» 29/04/2016 5:57:01 PM runner, People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. You're in la la land yours.....
» 29/04/2016 11:06:34 AM Is the title of this article a mistake? It doesn't actually refer to inequity, and only me.....
» 29/04/2016 2:58:56 AM VK3AUU, "I would suggest that it is morally wrong with seeking to improve your standa.....
» 28/04/2016 3:23:30 PM onthebeach, That document also shows there's an exemption for fires less than 2m in any di.....
» 28/04/2016 2:11:55 PM JF Aus, Damage to the GBR is already happening. The problem now is that there's so much d.....
» 28/04/2016 1:41:15 PM Tombee, "Anyone who has done Economics 101 will already know what Joe Branigan says.&.....
» 28/04/2016 10:57:07 AM The economy needs stimulus. The government should be takng on a lot more debt, not paying .....
» 28/04/2016 3:48:46 AM Rhian, I can't understand why there was any support for that "canal" proposal (.....
» 28/04/2016 3:47:42 AM JF Aus, "Sewage nutrient overload pollution is not a "threat" to the GBR b.....
» 27/04/2016 11:12:33 AM Yuyutsu, of those four only Stalin engaged in significant nation building. Why do you eve.....
» 26/04/2016 10:39:37 PM Paul1405, Mount Gambier and Murray Bridge are cities. Your failure to recognise that is me.....
» 26/04/2016 3:20:52 PM Loudmouth, did you actually read the article? It's not about building new nuclear reactors.....
» 26/04/2016 2:18:33 AM Final confirmation, Shadow? I suggest you reread that report you linked to – it makes it c.....
» 25/04/2016 9:07:17 PM onthebeach, "When will we know if the fool has managed to set a coal seam alight alo.....
» 25/04/2016 4:39:01 PM Loudmouth, Due to the fact that there was a boat on the river (which he was in when he se.....
» 25/04/2016 3:25:17 PM If the methane is naturally seeping out, it's grossly irresponsible to allow fracking anyw.....
» 23/04/2016 9:42:28 PM Paul1405, that's not reverse taxation, it's Singapore style reverse porkbarrelling! Nor i.....
» 23/04/2016 11:32:57 AM Hasbeen, As I said, they're studying not swanning. They should do it any way they can. Yo.....
» 22/04/2016 5:22:58 PM "However it is not a fair go to expect a checkout chick on less than $35000 after tax.....
» 22/04/2016 3:27:39 AM Bazz, The country most susceptible to blockading of the South China Sea is China itself. .....
» 22/04/2016 2:51:59 AM I'm neither rich nor powerful, but I know that applying GST to share trades would be very .....
» 22/04/2016 2:43:49 AM Australia is a rich country and can easily afford to give disabled people a fair go. It's .....
» 20/04/2016 3:40:42 PM Well, Armchair, the Shanghai Gold Exchange is live and nothing's happened, which proves my.....
» 20/04/2016 2:40:06 PM Josephus, it's not the only call; they could amend or abandon the legislation instead......
» 20/04/2016 2:38:17 PM phooey, you're partly right, but if you think that's all there is to it than you're wrong......
» 19/04/2016 3:50:19 PM Mr 0, I see you haven't even attempted to answer any of the questions that I asked. (unle.....
» 18/04/2016 9:00:05 PM Mr 0, "China has made it quite clear that it will not abide with International Law u.....
» 18/04/2016 4:10:53 PM John Ryan, While it's sensible to be suspicious of anything that has IPA backing, it is s.....
» 18/04/2016 3:00:14 PM phooey, The RWHTH was caused by high interest rates in the year leading up to it; nothing.....
» 18/04/2016 2:48:07 PM Armchair, People who've invested heavily in gold have lost money, so they're inventing co.....
» 18/04/2016 11:35:27 AM I generally agree with this article. For the self employed, work being unavailable is wors.....
» 18/04/2016 1:09:33 AM Mr 0, I've made it clear that I'm on the side of international law. You regard me as &quo.....
» 18/04/2016 12:43:49 AM "Most areas were still under 6%, so hardly a huge problem when 5% is considered to be.....
» 17/04/2016 3:04:27 PM phooey, AIUI there are many different strains of marijuana; most reduce aggression but som.....
» 16/04/2016 10:46:15 AM Mr 0, Engineers are defined by what they do know, not what they don't. And I can confiden.....
» 16/04/2016 10:15:21 AM "Aidan, the whole "debt is good" outlook worries me.......the only time deb.....
» 15/04/2016 11:25:04 PM Yabby, Not all the journalists do have it wrong. Some acknowledge that Australia will nev.....
» 15/04/2016 2:26:36 PM Yabby, The Labor party do indeed misunderstand the situation. As do the Liberals, the Nat.....
» 15/04/2016 12:23:58 PM Mr 0, When will you get it into your head that different Chinese people have different op.....
» 15/04/2016 2:23:20 AM Yabby, Knowing what affects the cost of money is one thing; common sense is quite another.....
» 14/04/2016 10:14:07 PM I'm not a fan of the new $5 note. I wasn't a fan of the old $5 note either. I'm not a rep.....
» 14/04/2016 6:19:10 PM "Despite no warming since 1998..." Has the reviewer slept through the past year.....
» 14/04/2016 5:48:23 PM Loudmouth and sonofgloin, The obsession with corporate tax rates is costly. All other thi.....
» 14/04/2016 1:54:29 PM (continued) "That is wonderful in theory, but in reality we have few manufacturing i.....
» 14/04/2016 1:44:17 PM Yabby, Appeal to authority is at best a very weak argument, but in the field of economics.....
» 13/04/2016 1:56:53 PM (continued) Mobile internet is good where demand is low, but where demand is high the nee.....
» 13/04/2016 1:56:09 PM Yabby, Yes I can access the AFR link, but the explanation is ill thought out. If a count.....
» 13/04/2016 2:47:30 AM Yabby, You misunderstand how technology interacts with costs, particularly with infrastru.....
» 13/04/2016 2:08:25 AM Armchair, Yes you put your foot in it. But by doing so you revealed a lot about the assum.....
» 12/04/2016 4:02:58 PM Yabby (continued), To clarify my position: I regard inflation as the biggest constraint o.....
» 12/04/2016 4:00:14 PM Yabby, Appreciation of irony is not confusion. You seem to have missed MY point about re.....
» 11/04/2016 2:18:50 PM Armchair, you can rest assured that if mkarsikko's getting an easy free ride, your taxes a.....
» 9/04/2016 10:04:56 PM Yabby, I had to laugh - the first time I tried to open that link of yours it got a 524 er.....
» 9/04/2016 1:13:22 PM (continued) "Spending 3 years training a whole lot of extra people, only to sack them.....
» 9/04/2016 1:12:58 PM Yabby, "Yes Aiden, the cost has fallen and given the rapid change in IT, should fall.....
» 9/04/2016 11:54:29 AM ttbn, I'm not suggesting impropriety; merely inefficiency. Because his electorate is so b.....
» 9/04/2016 2:31:04 AM Mr 0, I've never encountered any engineer having trouble with words of several syllables,.....
» 8/04/2016 4:52:14 PM ttbn, I missed the reports in the media, so I googled it and found http://www.thechronicl.....
» 7/04/2016 5:17:25 PM Mr 0, 'Tis quite obvious, though I'm astounded Jay's the one saying it: The rich are flee.....
» 7/04/2016 4:42:38 PM Yabby, I agree that spending needs to be accountable. But did you overlook my 10:32 AM pos.....
» 7/04/2016 11:19:59 AM Armchair, Obviously the USA was trying to bring down Russia in the cold war. But when Bil.....
» 7/04/2016 10:32:37 AM Yabby, FTTN is a terrible false economy. It uses more energy, has much higher maintenance .....
» 6/04/2016 9:36:41 PM Mr 0, "Why are you asking that question?" To find out the answer, of course! You.....
» 6/04/2016 5:08:38 PM Yuyutsu, Australian Citizenship is gold tier. Permanent Resident status is silver tier. .....
» 5/04/2016 11:39:51 PM chrisgaff1000, we do have one enormous advantage over Italy: unlike them, we have unlimite.....
» 5/04/2016 2:22:42 PM Claiming to care about refugee lives counts for nothing when you're telling them to FOAD. .....
» 5/04/2016 2:22:32 AM Chris C, I agree with you. ______________________________________________________________.....
» 5/04/2016 2:03:15 AM CHERFUL, Like everyone who's held positions of power in America, the Clintons are to blame.....
» 4/04/2016 2:13:08 PM onthebeach, Class warfare is unAustralian. We're all in it together, and Aussies know thi.....
» 4/04/2016 11:33:11 AM "Shorten on the other hand wants to cripple the economy by taking an axe to negative .....
» 3/04/2016 9:21:18 PM Hasbeen, I remember Rudd. But I wonder if you do? Rudd's economic intervention kept Aust.....
» 1/04/2016 11:09:45 PM Hasbeen, instead of throwing silly allegations around, perhaps you could supply examples o.....
» 1/04/2016 9:55:12 PM On the contrary, everyone knows Mugabe's an evil racist scumbag. But there's practically n.....
» 1/04/2016 12:27:49 PM Doug, last year was the hottest on record, and so far this year is on track to be even hot.....
» 1/04/2016 10:27:47 AM This article is rather inaccurate. For a start it was Rudd, not Howard, who was PM in 2008.....
» 30/03/2016 3:58:43 PM Arjay, the Rothschild family includes a lot of inherited wealth, though nowadays that's sp.....
» 30/03/2016 12:47:42 PM Rewarding for success is not the government's role; success brings its own rewards. What t.....
» 29/03/2016 9:52:03 AM I agree we should shift more of the tax burden onto land. However it has little to do with.....
» 28/03/2016 8:39:56 PM Mr0, "I don't think you have the intellectual capacity to do an Arts degree." I.....
» 28/03/2016 7:25:25 PM Hasbeen, I'm curious as to which previously very safe Liberal seat Turnbull's so unpopular.....
» 28/03/2016 2:04:23 PM Arjay, Why do you still keep droning on about private central banks? I know you can find .....
» 28/03/2016 10:50:13 AM So why, Beach, do you think the parties are so close in the polls?.....
» 26/03/2016 5:44:29 PM Dear Mr Opinion, What do you think the attributes of a learned person are? I'm baffled b.....
» 26/03/2016 11:17:01 AM Dear Mr Opinion, "Anybody can say they have knowledge on a particular subject. Provi.....
» 25/03/2016 10:23:17 PM Mr0, Asking for a list of subjects that engineers have extensive knowledge in is as stupi.....
» 24/03/2016 7:49:22 PM Mr IdioticOpinion, When you lie about your background (as there is strong evidence that y.....
» 21/03/2016 8:54:31 PM JF and JB, Where did you get the idea that any water travels under the sea from Papua to .....
» 21/03/2016 6:05:56 PM Doug Cotton, you're falsely accusing scientists of all making an idiotic assumption that I.....
» 21/03/2016 2:15:29 PM JF Aus, Australian steel mills tend to specialise in high strength steel. We could make t.....
» 21/03/2016 9:31:40 AM Rhosty, "Aidan, what makes you think there'd be any heat generated by a completely f.....
» 21/03/2016 1:14:14 AM JF Aus, If we want to save our country's steel industry, we should invest very heavily in.....
» 20/03/2016 1:48:39 AM JB, Thanks. On my map the spelling is Bromelton. I know that currently in Australia, lon.....
» 20/03/2016 1:24:07 AM rehctub, "what makes you think we can afford to build things when our labour costs a.....
» 19/03/2016 2:18:43 AM Your guess is wrong, Jayb. I've been on the Ghan from Adelaide to Alice Springs and back (.....
» 18/03/2016 2:27:45 PM JF Aus, Train ticket pricing is likely to be similar to the air ticket pricing, albeit wi.....
» 16/03/2016 1:14:21 AM Yuyutsu, "And very sadly, the latter is compulsory for anyone who lives at the same .....
» 15/03/2016 5:21:03 PM Rhosty, firstly they're not unrepresentative swill; they're representative of the people o.....
» 15/03/2016 2:30:29 PM Yuyutsu, although some of the citizens didn't consent to be citizens, the duty of voting o.....
» 15/03/2016 1:23:08 PM rehctub, the problem of there being nothing else to do is one that the government can solv.....
» 15/03/2016 12:22:20 PM ttbn, there's nothing undemocratic about imposing a duty on citizens. And when bad legisl.....
» 14/03/2016 10:23:26 PM Mark Duffett, while the mining activity is taking place, it usually generates a much highe.....
» 14/03/2016 10:13:25 AM Shadow, Both Craig Thompson and Michael Williamson were kicked out of Labor. And in both .....
» 14/03/2016 1:55:13 AM Mr Opinion, Your assumption that it's all about social status is incorrect. 'Tis actually.....
» 13/03/2016 8:25:34 PM rehctub, I agree we'd be in a better position if the stimulus had been spent on infrastruc.....
» 13/03/2016 7:34:57 PM rehctub, it is good for the economy to encourage businesses to invest in equipment that lo.....
» 13/03/2016 3:51:48 PM Poirot, while I oppose the government's gerrymander disguised as senate reform, I don't un.....
» 13/03/2016 1:57:50 PM Shadow, the thing you appear to have failed to realise about Tony Abbott's spin is that it.....
» 12/03/2016 9:01:37 PM Different engineers are knowledgeable in different subjects. There are some subjects (such.....
» 11/03/2016 4:48:41 PM rehctub, "The problem with trying to grow our economy, rather than focus on reducing.....
» 11/03/2016 12:48:00 PM Hasbeen I'm amazed at your attitude. Like you I don't trust Turnbull to even know what nee.....
» 11/03/2016 9:44:28 AM Check your facts, Don: the Menzies government ALWAYS ran deficits, and they started with a.....
» 10/03/2016 9:37:03 PM snake (continued) There is also far too much concern about currency wars. In the long ter.....
» 10/03/2016 9:24:19 PM snake, "It appears to me that you are suggesting some kind of Keynesian programme of .....
» 10/03/2016 1:01:53 PM Shadow and Hasbeen, you seem to have already forgotten that the alternative was Tony Abbot.....
» 10/03/2016 12:45:16 PM Rhosty, "Nuclear submarines can operate in shallow water if the inboard coolant is h.....
» 10/03/2016 12:28:18 PM snake, I agree that a large proportion of the electorate is ignorant of the ramifications.....
» 10/03/2016 10:19:49 AM Pauline Hanson was back at the previous election too, but very few voted for her. Her para.....
» 8/03/2016 9:39:01 AM Cobber I strongly disagree. David's economic incompetence is shared by many in the Liberal.....
» 8/03/2016 9:21:21 AM Unlike a household, Australia has unlimited credit and forever to pay it off. Therefore as.....
» 7/03/2016 5:10:59 PM Yuyutsu, the decision to do nothing is still a decision. Denying responsibility doesn't ma.....
» 7/03/2016 3:43:58 PM Hasbeen (continued) "One other point Aidan, you can't transfer heat from a cooler bo.....
» 7/03/2016 3:43:00 PM Hasbeen, "Aidan due to the nature of the planet, a sphere, a higher percentage of an.....
» 7/03/2016 12:32:18 PM The proposed changes are s huge gerrymander to the major parties, as they encourage people.....
» 7/03/2016 9:59:21 AM Hasbeen, an obvious flaw in your hypothesis is that after absorbing photons of those wavel.....
» 6/03/2016 6:58:53 PM Wake up, NathanJ! Murder is far more commercialized than vertigo is! There are thousands o.....
» 6/03/2016 3:44:15 PM Shadow, I think that like most people who've never suffered from vertigo, you're confusing.....
» 3/03/2016 10:11:33 PM Joe, up until now I've assumed that you know as well as Tim Flannery does that the desalin.....
» 3/03/2016 10:51:48 AM Killarney, Do some reading yourself! I'm well aware of the poverty reduction and increase.....
» 3/03/2016 9:10:55 AM Although it would work, the cost of desalinated water exceeds the value of the crops it wo.....
» 2/03/2016 10:59:43 AM China knows it has to prioritise growth or else the leaders will lose the support of the p.....
» 2/03/2016 9:19:46 AM AJFA, that's a case in point. You dismiss every aspect of socialism because of a few dubio.....
» 1/03/2016 12:20:01 PM There's more to it than that. A new generation are discovering that the ideas of (what's n.....
» 1/03/2016 12:15:20 PM Tristan, Not just many other countries; all other countries! A higher social wage would be.....
» 1/03/2016 9:25:00 AM No, Mr O, it's logically impossible for uploading images of typical scenes around Sydney t.....
» 29/02/2016 9:34:03 PM Dear Mr Opinion, NO IT IS NOT! Which is just as well, because if there was a way to post.....
» 29/02/2016 11:32:40 AM Luciferase, there's one very big difference: limited supply. Companies can quite easily is.....
» 29/02/2016 9:29:25 AM Mr Opinion, Many immigrants, tourists and even some students prefer to use their native l.....
» 29/02/2016 9:00:50 AM Is Mise, the mayor's BJP so you can't credibly blame the Muslims for this one!.....
» 29/02/2016 1:02:19 AM Rhosty, is that multi trillion dollar canal to nowhere all your own idea?.....
» 28/02/2016 6:27:14 PM Sydney to Melbourne inclusive has a population of about ten million. The numbers do stack .....
» 28/02/2016 5:11:56 PM I can't say I'm surprised. But I do wonder whether he's seen the film Philadelphia, and w.....
» 28/02/2016 4:52:08 PM Dear Mr Opinion, BT;DT. Even in Chinatown I didn't need to speak Chinese. Some parts of .....
» 28/02/2016 4:40:45 PM Tristan "though some workers are so industrially weak that solidarity through Seconda.....
» 28/02/2016 2:17:50 PM Mr Opinion, "Time will tell. And I bet I'm correct in my predictions." We all k.....
» 27/02/2016 6:56:34 PM Mr Opinion, For someone who claims to be a a socio-cultural analyst, you're remarkably ig.....
» 27/02/2016 2:11:46 PM Tristan, Swan's promise of a surplus "come hell or high water" was not only una.....
» 27/02/2016 12:54:53 PM onthebeach, whole Latham's criticism of the ALP was uncharacteristically right, your addin.....
» 27/02/2016 9:33:51 AM calwest (continued) "NBN" Labor sensibly went with FTTH, which was really the on.....
» 27/02/2016 9:31:58 AM calwest, 'Tis your mind, not mine, that's closed. To find out why, read on: I can unders.....
» 26/02/2016 9:47:50 PM Team Uzi, "Isn't conscription going overboard? No, it's not. Let me put it to you thi.....
» 25/02/2016 2:06:12 PM Sorry, I failed to make it clear that the last bit of my previous post was directed to Baz.....
» 25/02/2016 2:00:40 PM calmest (continued) [milk] "In 2008, the UK Competition Commission published a repor.....
» 25/02/2016 1:52:22 PM calwest (continued) [NBN] "Only a dunce would say that the NBN was a raging success.....
» 25/02/2016 12:02:39 PM calwest, [NDIS] "What benefits, to how many, at what cost?" The benefits of a l.....
» 24/02/2016 5:05:58 PM Rhrosty, I'm no fan of David Cameron, but your criticism of his approach is not valid. He .....
» 24/02/2016 2:47:18 PM When I was at school we were taught self defence in PE for a week or two in years 9 and 10.....
» 24/02/2016 12:23:25 PM Do try to wake up a bit Hasbeen, & not talk such garbage. Ford, GM, Toyota & the rest of .....
» 24/02/2016 11:17:58 AM Bazz, "Ponzi schemes" has a specific meaning. None of the shale oil companies ar.....
» 24/02/2016 9:04:10 AM We don't need to force them to continue to trade here. They trade here because it's profit.....
» 24/02/2016 12:31:17 AM From http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/brilliant-and-fearless-but-paul-keating-was-ri.....
» 23/02/2016 4:47:41 PM Bazz, I didn't claim the major oil companies were worried about the present low prices. .....
» 23/02/2016 1:48:21 PM rehctub, the farmers don't get paid more for normal milk if it sells for more. Selling it .....
» 22/02/2016 3:20:03 PM rehctub, although there is little doubt the proposed NG changes, if implemented, would hav.....
» 22/02/2016 11:06:36 AM I have previously said we should try to make immigration profitable. Though I doubt it wou.....
» 21/02/2016 11:58:14 PM nicknamenick, I'm baffled as to what this has to do with elections. Considering Alexande.....
» 21/02/2016 11:34:49 PM Hasbeen, "the only disadvantaged group in Oz is white adult males in work." If .....
» 20/02/2016 1:48:56 AM Captain Col, it's not a matter of paying higher wages than people are worth; instead we sh.....
» 19/02/2016 10:41:34 PM Rhrosty, "Aidan, if we know there are tax loopholes? WTF?" THOSE WERE YOUR WORDS.....
» 19/02/2016 10:40:04 PM calwest, "Except where it was way over budget and way behind schedule, with no resolu.....
» 19/02/2016 3:49:23 PM calwest, Governments have promoted the stereotype of people smugglers as evil. The reali.....
» 19/02/2016 12:31:00 PM Captain Col, lowering environmental standards certainly isn't the answer. The generation c.....
» 19/02/2016 11:46:17 AM Bazz, "No one seems to be pushing a scheme to get the economy back to its late 1980'.....
» 19/02/2016 9:10:12 AM Mr Opinion, are you related to Donald Trump? Nearly everyone else understands that migrant.....
» 18/02/2016 1:28:13 PM Rhosty: "The best debt is that which is owed to you and not that which claims around .....
» 18/02/2016 1:08:40 PM Tristan, either you're explaining things very poorly or you're ignorant of the way money w.....
» 18/02/2016 10:52:12 AM Whether this is a great collapse or a minor hiccup depends mainly on how politicians react.....
» 18/02/2016 10:38:30 AM Tristan, yes there's a sweetspot. But the point is we're nowhere near that sweetspot at th.....
» 18/02/2016 10:27:07 AM calmest you've got it backwards: Australia's current economic and budgetary problems are t.....
» 18/02/2016 10:09:39 AM Idiotic article, calling for the rejection of austerity then saying "AND the deficit .....
» 18/02/2016 9:46:51 AM ttbn, why do you think a population of 13 million is optimal? Surely the optimal populatio.....
» 18/02/2016 1:11:02 AM (continued) I'm certainly not suggesting continually carrying 93% on welfare. We should ai.....
» 18/02/2016 1:10:27 AM SAINTS, Firstly, let's get one thing straight: boats crossing our borders do not threaten .....
» 18/02/2016 12:22:51 AM The main difference between the Abbott government and the Turnbull government is that the .....
» 17/02/2016 9:48:23 PM Hasbeen, your definition of affirmative action is wrong, at least in Australian english. .....
» 17/02/2016 2:54:13 PM Shadow, $600m over the first four years (and probably rising after that) is still a signif.....
» 17/02/2016 10:09:09 AM America has been underinvesting in its infrastructure for a long time, and that's very cos.....
» 17/02/2016 1:21:23 AM Suseonline, whether or not it's useless, governments have been keen to be seen as pro inve.....
» 17/02/2016 1:08:22 AM Hi Joe, The alleged point is to stop people drowning at sea. But the government's policy .....
» 16/02/2016 11:33:48 PM rehctub, the very obvious reason why many people believe negative gearing should be scrapp.....
» 16/02/2016 11:15:59 PM Physical strength does not require large stature, and mental strength is totally unrelated.....
» 16/02/2016 5:46:39 PM SAINTS, The best solution would be to provide a safer alternative for asylum seekers. Wer.....
» 16/02/2016 12:54:29 PM Shadow, you say the investors "will simply invest elsewhere". But just where do .....
» 16/02/2016 11:45:38 AM rehctub, I really don't think your concerns are valid. The reduction in the ratio of rent.....
» 15/02/2016 5:55:42 PM Loudmouth, Technically you can compress water. Though liquids are generally regarded as i.....
» 15/02/2016 1:44:22 PM Loudmouth, why wouldn't his conscience allow him to continue?.....
» 15/02/2016 12:24:08 PM Divergence, your post reminds me of the old joke: Q: How many psychiatrists does it take .....
» 13/02/2016 1:58:17 PM G'day Joe, Even though you prefer option F to all the others, I hope you agree that option.....
» 13/02/2016 10:02:25 AM mhaze, Far from hair splitting, timing is crucial when considering whether the claim of c.....
» 13/02/2016 2:50:07 AM mhaze, if it were true that.. "As soon as Dutton’s order came into effect, the self-h.....
» 13/02/2016 1:56:58 AM You should think more about what you read, Leo, and stop restricting yourself to things th.....
» 12/02/2016 10:07:55 PM Dear Mr Opinion, You can if you want use "Chinese" to mean people of the Chines.....
» 12/02/2016 5:46:31 PM runner, WTF is your problem with Mr Windsor? Is it just because he was smart enough to kn.....
» 12/02/2016 3:05:16 PM Foxy, I agree that Barnaby's heart's in the right place. The trouble is his head's in th.....
» 12/02/2016 1:24:57 PM Leo, "The article to which he referred us was about how the satellite record showed t.....
» 12/02/2016 10:24:03 AM Loudmouth, "I would dearly love to see an ABC video shot of Aboriginal people in comm.....
» 12/02/2016 9:48:36 AM "Not so fast. As soon as Dutton’s order came into effect, the self-harming on Nauru s.....
» 9/02/2016 4:02:33 PM mhaze, where did you get the idea that "in those times women had no rights and were m.....
» 9/02/2016 1:22:22 PM Rhosty {continued} • Zimbabwe resorted to physically printing money. [In countries such a.....
» 9/02/2016 1:21:28 PM As always Rhosty you're full of it! Obviously you've heard the myth that borrowing money .....
» 8/02/2016 8:57:57 PM Cobber, Port Augusta is much better suited to solar thermal, and that could be constructed.....
» 8/02/2016 12:12:28 PM "Private hospitals have repeatedly proven themselves to be overall safer, more effect.....
» 5/02/2016 1:12:27 PM Loudmouth, nobody deserves to be immune from charges of rape, but surely everyone deserves.....
» 4/02/2016 12:32:41 PM Raycom, previous NSW governments were stupid to fail to spend billions on a new railway fr.....
» 4/02/2016 12:16:50 PM Rhosty, borrowing money from overseas would force up the short term value of our dollar, w.....
» 4/02/2016 12:10:11 PM Worst ever, Hasbeen? I suppose you think Turnbull's our worst ever PM too. But as with Tu.....
» 2/02/2016 9:47:52 PM This article makes two fundamental errors. The first is pretty obvious: there is no conun.....
» 2/02/2016 2:18:53 PM Foxy, Yes, Hawaiians look at things differently. But a lot of Australians also look at th.....
» 2/02/2016 9:39:23 AM Mr Opinion, Yes, I'm just an engineer. So was Isambard Kingdom Brunel. What did you manag.....
» 1/02/2016 7:47:45 PM Dear Mr Opinion, "The reason I went on to do Arts degrees was because I thought I co.....
» 1/02/2016 4:16:00 PM Mr Opinion, "You have just demonstrated that you have the typical level of education.....
» 1/02/2016 1:46:17 AM Mr Opinion, Your "room full of books" analogy is weird. Why do you have to fini.....
» 29/01/2016 8:16:27 PM Dear Mr Opinion, "I'm sorry you have difficulty in grasping the meaning behind what .....
» 29/01/2016 5:37:31 PM Mr Opinion, If you're so educated then why do you make such stupid claims? _____________.....
» 29/01/2016 5:08:44 PM None of the people on that list, Jay? That's an extraordinary claim! In what way is Jacqui.....
» 29/01/2016 3:39:59 PM Joanne Capper?.....
» 29/01/2016 1:39:54 PM Tony Abbott is not in any way a bogan. To be a bogan: • you have to be born in Australia .....
» 28/01/2016 2:42:35 PM Dear Mr Opinion, "I just took a look out of the window. And guess what, you're right.....
» 28/01/2016 12:34:36 PM Divergence, "There clearly aren't enough jobs. The ABS uses a ridiculously restricti.....
» 28/01/2016 9:53:06 AM Foxy, "At the rate Australia is chopping down our forests there will be no forests l.....
» 27/01/2016 11:30:55 PM Divergence, "You could try exploiting your workers, but there would be plenty of oth.....
» 27/01/2016 1:47:14 PM Shadow, "Of your three reasons given why generation should not be privatised:" .....
» 27/01/2016 1:08:16 PM Divergence, It is not the immigrants who are to blame for industrial relations laws that .....
» 27/01/2016 12:36:02 PM Toni Lavis, No we most certainly do not have the Union Flag on our flag. Something that i.....
» 27/01/2016 1:41:25 AM Foxy, Seen them before. Just saying that's the best one if we do decide to change flag. .....
» 26/01/2016 8:25:03 PM runner, I'm well aware of what true science is. "Fitting every storm into your narra.....
» 26/01/2016 7:14:42 PM I don't think we need a new flag. However if we do decide to change it, I think we should .....
» 26/01/2016 7:09:05 PM Jennifer, "When it comes to claims the earth is overheating it is perhaps worth takin.....
» 26/01/2016 10:54:40 AM onthebeach, I found Wikipedia to be a great tool for uni. But you wouldn't normally cite .....
» 26/01/2016 1:21:08 AM onthebeach, after all this time do you still not know how Wikipedia works? It doesn't spe.....
» 25/01/2016 1:51:54 PM There is rarely a case for generation to be government owned, but I can think of three sit.....
» 25/01/2016 12:08:36 PM Rhosty, I suggest you reread what I've written more carefully. I specifically said ".....
» 24/01/2016 9:53:42 PM 579, We do not know in advance what the electricity demand will be, nor exactly how much e.....
» 24/01/2016 9:12:04 PM Rhosty, I concede the point on graphene: I've checked and natural graphite is the best sou.....
» 24/01/2016 1:09:23 PM Rhosty, Of course I understand, as I keep having to repeat things to get through to you! B.....
» 23/01/2016 11:44:11 PM Rhrosty, Shipping isn't the only possible source for those oil slicks, but it's the only p.....
» 23/01/2016 2:43:54 PM ttbn, we already have one: Clive Palmer......
» 22/01/2016 3:23:19 PM Rhosty, A few speculative geological reports from the 1970s don't refute anything! We now.....
» 21/01/2016 5:43:16 PM Paid? I wish! Trolls? I'm not the one who's been repeatedly posting the same thing and ig.....
» 21/01/2016 5:37:49 PM Arjay, a full scale war between Iran and Saudi Arabia is extremely unlikely. But if Iran s.....
» 21/01/2016 5:24:20 PM Rhosty, graphene is great stuff but whether it's the strongest material depends on your de.....
» 20/01/2016 9:19:47 PM Rhosty and Hasbeen, No oil has ever been found under the Great Barrier Reef, and most geo.....
» 20/01/2016 4:17:41 PM Bazz, although it can be mixed with heavy crude to thin the crude, that's not what I'm ref.....
» 20/01/2016 11:38:35 AM Those TV commercials are only partly right: it's a day we're supposed to eat LAMINGTONS! .....
» 20/01/2016 9:38:04 AM Rhosty, what makes you think graphene would improve ceramic fuel cells? AIUI graphene let.....
» 20/01/2016 1:36:34 AM Bazz, I think you underestimate the oil refineries: they can turn one type of hydrocarbon .....
» 20/01/2016 12:54:45 AM BROCK, you don't seem to have thought this through at all well. You dismiss Hillary Clinto.....
» 19/01/2016 1:31:26 PM mhaze, a more likely reason for his relative obscurity was that Norman Borlaug didn't seek.....
» 19/01/2016 12:39:10 PM Rhosty, David Bowie was never in the closet. He was a truly great artist, though it did t.....
» 19/01/2016 12:31:05 PM "Cowards that they are, they collect 'inflation tax' instead, so that most people wil.....
» 19/01/2016 12:30:09 PM Dear Yuyutsu, Newton's laws were based on observation. Karma (beyond people's reactions b.....
» 17/01/2016 5:54:31 PM Bazz and snake, At the moment I can't find the CEC's allegation that Obama works for MI6,.....
» 15/01/2016 3:48:46 PM Dear Yuyutsu, There is no law of karma in nature. Human nature may sometimes make it appe.....
» 15/01/2016 12:35:46 PM Dear Yuyutsu, "Just to clarify, I do not recommend suicide, I just left this example.....
» 15/01/2016 11:53:21 AM Yuyutsu, why is it you think it would be better for the state to give the same amount to e.....
» 14/01/2016 3:21:32 PM 'Tis pretty clear that a specific inheritance tax is a bad idea. But is there any good rea.....
» 14/01/2016 11:28:45 AM snake, the CEC are a group of conspiracy nutters who think Obama works for MI6. Claims the.....
» 14/01/2016 10:11:25 AM Bazz, "Some time ago I drew your attention to the Bail in provisions of the IMF & th.....
» 14/01/2016 12:57:57 AM onthebeach and Hasbeen, CFLs only have a small amount of mercury in them, and are recycla.....
» 14/01/2016 12:56:49 AM Yuyutsu, If you're so debt averse that you'd pass up good investment opportunities just t.....
» 13/01/2016 2:16:08 PM Yuyutsu, I wouldn't be as upset about it as the seller would be, for I would not be liabl.....
» 13/01/2016 12:17:50 AM Their understanding of debt is far from complete. The problem isn't too much debt, it's an.....
» 11/01/2016 1:57:54 PM Mr Opinion, Since 1788 Australia has been composed of different ethnic groups who do not s.....
» 11/01/2016 8:16:14 AM Tony Abbott was so unpopular because of his lies and Broken promises. He was worse than Gi.....
» 11/01/2016 8:03:38 AM Is Mise, "If guns cause crime then why isn't the USA at the top of the crime list?&.....
» 10/01/2016 2:17:41 PM Mr Opinion, I am a participant in this discussion. Do you have a problem with that? Why .....
» 10/01/2016 1:33:51 PM Yabby, The country does not need to borrow just to stay afloat financially. We would stay.....
» 10/01/2016 12:17:55 PM Mr Opinion, WTF do you think "communist" means? I don't normally have any troub.....
» 9/01/2016 11:35:09 AM Yabby, Wanting to avoid a housing bubble would be a reason for the RBA to increase interes.....
» 8/01/2016 10:30:28 AM Time to revise your meaningless figures, Steve: Sherlock Holmes's house was 221B Baker Str.....
» 8/01/2016 1:03:46 AM Yabby, where the objective is to influence short term currency movements, the comparative .....
» 7/01/2016 4:51:11 PM onthebeach, "That would mean taxing many people's only asset, their home, on which th.....
» 7/01/2016 3:25:56 PM Foxy, The best solution is to replace the GST (and other state taxes) with a broad based .....
» 7/01/2016 3:12:10 PM Yabby, I suggest you have a look at a chart of our current account and interest rate figu.....
» 7/01/2016 11:38:51 AM Yabby, you seem to be under the impression that nothing changed when our dollar was floate.....
» 6/01/2016 6:32:15 PM NathanJ, production of rubbish is not itself a major environmental problem. Incorrect disp.....
» 6/01/2016 5:47:55 PM Yabby, your argument is based on a false assumption: that the Australian government borrow.....
» 6/01/2016 2:34:56 PM Yabby, Although the US current account deficit has fallen, they maintained it at high leve.....
» 6/01/2016 12:50:01 PM Yabby, a current account deficit of 6% of GDP is not at all like a banana republic. 'Tis m.....
» 6/01/2016 11:54:28 AM Steve, reality doesn't work like that. Whether or not something is true is unrelated to ho.....
» 6/01/2016 10:53:23 AM runner, Brisbane dam levels are shown at http://www.seqwater.com.au/water-supply/dam-leve.....
» 5/01/2016 12:20:07 PM Leo, firstly I made no incorrect assertion. Secondly you've got the URL wrong: it's http:/.....
» 4/01/2016 10:57:51 PM ant, THAT'S NOT WHAT WET BULB TEMPERATURE MEANS! Wet bulb temperature is the effective te.....
» 4/01/2016 5:15:59 PM Bazz, Although some Australians have a debt problem, Australia as a nation does not. Whe.....
» 4/01/2016 4:04:54 PM Bazz, What will it take for you to understand that Australia is financially sovereign? B.....
» 4/01/2016 3:35:32 PM ant, "high bulb conditions" is a meaningless phrase. "Near wet bulb condit.....
» 3/01/2016 3:20:43 PM Leo, you have my word that I'm neither a liar nor an idiot. And of course you have no evid.....
» 3/01/2016 12:22:18 AM Leo, you have no credibility left. You accuse everything that doesn't fit your prejudice o.....
» 1/01/2016 2:34:23 PM Shadow, If in this discussion I were aiming for a medal in deliberate ignorance, the best.....
» 31/12/2015 11:26:12 PM Shadow, Considering your background, I'm amazed at some of the stupid claims you've posted.....
» 31/12/2015 12:49:27 PM Hasbeen, of course oil is part of our geology. And like many other parts of our geology, i.....
» 31/12/2015 11:43:43 AM Rhosty, "Labor should preference anybody else! If only to stop the anti development a.....
» 30/12/2015 3:01:16 PM Thhere is nothing in the nationsl interest that s double dissolution would currently impro.....
» 29/12/2015 12:06:01 PM Shadow - I am Civil not Electrical. But you're the one with delusions. The statement &qu.....
» 27/12/2015 11:58:46 PM Killarney, the exact opposite happened in Sri Lanka. Decolonisation works best if all the.....
» 27/12/2015 7:04:46 PM Shadow, "You have been retreating on your claims whenever you are challenged due to y.....
» 27/12/2015 4:30:14 PM Jardine, You keep posting links and claiming they disprove what ant's saying. But I've lo.....
» 27/12/2015 12:42:52 PM Mr Opinion, I suggest you reread what I actually wrote. Nothing I said could reasonably be.....
» 27/12/2015 12:59:08 AM Mr Opinion, The trouble is if you ignore the numbers you end up living in a world of human.....
» 25/12/2015 11:15:43 AM onthebeach, The cities are successful precisely because they have so many people! It make.....
» 25/12/2015 10:57:23 AM Shadow, you understand the definitions but fail to understand that people disagree with yo.....
» 24/12/2015 4:28:29 PM Mr Opinion, Why do you think more Chinese people would make Australia somewhere to get aw.....
» 23/12/2015 6:32:10 PM Dear Mr Opinion, "I gather from your comment that you are expecting that the Chinese.....
» 23/12/2015 2:30:02 PM Shadow, I'm glad you understand the definitions. But your statement about the cost of ren.....
» 23/12/2015 2:15:28 PM Mr Opinion, If the Chinese ever come here in anything like the numbers you envisage, the .....
» 23/12/2015 1:40:49 PM Luciferase, "Really? What backup do nuclear and FF based power need on grid?" Ye.....
» 23/12/2015 9:56:42 AM Rhosty, claims that we're one of the most overgoverned countries in the world don't stand .....
» 23/12/2015 9:36:40 AM Shadow, At least you have taken the first step in admitting that dedicated baseload power.....
» 23/12/2015 1:12:13 AM Shadow, As this has been an unusually dry year, Tasmania has been a net importer of elect.....
» 22/12/2015 8:35:03 PM Philip S, governments are keen to cut the public service workforce because they think that.....
» 21/12/2015 3:53:45 PM You're demonstrating your own supreme ignorance there, Shadow! "Supplying a country .....
» 21/12/2015 9:50:27 AM Shadow, I see that your prejudice has led to you dismissing my comments as complete ignor.....
» 20/12/2015 10:56:28 PM nicknamenick, "His lion and unicorn were seized by authorities and placed in the Can.....
» 20/12/2015 10:44:21 PM SA had unreliable electricity supply around the turn of the millennium. Having more renewa.....
» 20/12/2015 9:39:41 PM "Okay so we have just established to your own standard that what you're saying is fal.....
» 20/12/2015 7:46:57 PM Mr Opinion, How do you determine race? Can you identify a Chinese person if they're not H.....
» 20/12/2015 3:21:28 PM Dear Mr Opinion, What is the distinctive feature of Chinese people that enables you to id.....
» 20/12/2015 12:23:12 PM Mr Opinion, Can you actually tell by looking whether someone is Chinese rather than Japan.....
» 19/12/2015 9:36:32 PM Not quite, Shadow. The problem with this article is that its flaws are unlikely to be und.....
» 18/12/2015 2:01:41 AM Jardine, Appeal to authority is not intrinsically a fallacy. However: It is a fallacy to .....
» 17/12/2015 1:05:19 PM Yuyutsu, I hadn't heard that myth before. Is there an explanation of why they couldn't go.....
» 17/12/2015 12:49:38 PM I have also seen This Changes Everything, and I too found her confused and unpersuasive. T.....
» 17/12/2015 2:04:51 AM Jardine, I notice you didn't answer AJ's question. Why do you think the authority of scie.....
» 15/12/2015 4:13:31 PM Peter Lang, Despite that report's inappropriately high interest rate, I agree that more n.....
» 15/12/2015 3:28:16 PM Banjo, "You freely label racists those who were angry at the conduct of the Lebs who.....
» 12/12/2015 5:46:23 PM Banjo, "The day at Cronulla was nothing more that the locals taking back their beach.....
» 10/12/2015 3:47:13 PM rehctub, you seem to think fabrication is synonymous with manufacturing. But in reality fa.....
» 10/12/2015 1:10:17 PM Why should upskilling involve replacing workers rather than training them? The latter woul.....
» 10/12/2015 12:53:31 PM imacentristmoderate, government debt doesn't itself kill anything. But irrational fear of .....
» 9/12/2015 7:29:52 PM Divergence, If governments didn't have an irrational fear of debt, that would not be a pro.....
» 8/12/2015 7:29:43 PM calwest, I'm not an academic. I'm well aware of what the RBA is, and I know it's not prim.....
» 8/12/2015 3:15:59 PM calwest, We'd need a lot of solar thermal with molten salt storage. But HVDC transmission.....
» 8/12/2015 12:47:49 PM calwest, I was thinking more of nuclear, although Australia is so sunny and has such a lo.....
» 8/12/2015 11:05:45 AM macentristmoderate, whether someone has anything valid to say is not determined by their a.....
» 7/12/2015 5:09:11 PM onthebeach, on what do you base your claim that ”a licensed tradesman is required to chang.....
» 7/12/2015 1:22:46 PM ttbn, whatever Turnbull did yesterday, it's better than sssuming individuals to be "c.....
» 6/12/2015 1:21:07 AM Leo, the claiim that "the ocean is turning into acid" is w strawman used by fra.....
» 5/12/2015 2:18:34 AM Leo, there is no science to show the human effect on climate is trivial. Now considering a.....
» 4/12/2015 3:13:04 PM Steve, The Dish was not entirely accurate. The problems were exaggerated for dramatic effe.....
» 4/12/2015 1:32:00 PM Jardine I have admitted no such thing. Just because we can't definitively quantify the ben.....
» 4/12/2015 10:26:27 AM ttbn, we can afford to spend "money we don't have". We can't afford not to......
» 3/12/2015 6:28:26 PM Peter Lang, before you yet again disonestly accuse me of intellectual dishonesty, I sugges.....
» 3/12/2015 3:54:27 PM ttbn, There you go sgain making ludicrous assumptions! I don't hate Australia at all. I .....
» 3/12/2015 3:26:18 PM Peter Lang, Burning fuel to produce energy while the sun shines is an enormous waste of mo.....
» 3/12/2015 12:57:03 AM Bazz, You and ttbn made the ASSUMPTION that she was making a comparison, and hence reache.....
» 2/12/2015 11:22:25 PM Leo, I suggest you have another look at the page you hyperlinked to: its author has admitt.....
» 2/12/2015 8:28:55 PM Bazz, if we all know what she meant, why did you accuse her of meaning something else?.....
» 2/12/2015 11:28:39 AM ttbn, "What she said certainly implies that we are as bad as Saudi Arabia." No, .....
» 2/12/2015 11:13:50 AM The idea that action necessarily involves inflicting pain on voters is one of the main exc.....
» 2/12/2015 1:09:32 AM david f, Saying a fetus isn't an unborn child is like saying Sydney Harbour isn't an ungla.....
» 1/12/2015 6:47:29 PM ttbn, I'm going to ask you the same question I asked Bazz: do you have any evidence that G.....
» 1/12/2015 1:08:04 AM Leo Lane, Where did you get the idea that humans are responsible for only 3% of atmospheri.....
» 30/11/2015 10:31:15 PM Bazz, I can't recall that being on TV or in the papers, but I'm pretty sure she didn't mea.....
» 30/11/2015 5:47:19 PM Bazz — “Even the Human Rights Commissioner thinks Australia is more anti rights than Saudi.....
» 30/11/2015 2:32:33 AM Armchair, saying it an infinite number of times wouldn't make it true! I'm baffled as to.....
» 28/11/2015 7:35:35 PM imacentristmoderate, the global dimming effect from fossil fuels doesn't last anywhere nea.....
» 27/11/2015 9:58:38 AM Population growth is NOT the problem. It's already under control in most o the world, and .....
» 25/11/2015 3:15:14 PM Any regulatory change will disadvantage those who are gaming the system. But most small bu.....
» 23/11/2015 1:56:55 AM Jardine (continued) Most people acknowledge that economic theory, when based on facts, ca.....
» 23/11/2015 1:22:50 AM Jardine (continued), "At no stage do they offer any reason for their belief that a &q.....
» 23/11/2015 1:20:25 AM Jardine (continued), If you barged into a discussion on radio spectrum allocation with a p.....
» 23/11/2015 1:17:02 AM Jardine, "Look the question is perfectly simple. How do you know, at any given point,.....
» 22/11/2015 1:24:43 PM Jay, "A society with taboos is not a secular society." Are you saying it's not .....
» 21/11/2015 5:03:57 PM AJ Philips, "Faith, in the religious sense, can be defined as a belief without evide.....
» 16/11/2015 1:56:02 AM Jardine (continued) "Aidan in another thread even descended to the absurdity of asse.....
» 16/11/2015 1:29:01 AM "But that doesn’t mean there’s no objective criterion for demonstrating the value of .....
» 15/11/2015 10:17:28 PM Wow, Jardine, you have been very busy building strawmen! Tax is, as I said, necessary to .....
» 15/11/2015 1:09:21 AM ttbn, what do you regard as "the Left"? 99.9% of those on what I consider to be.....
» 14/11/2015 2:45:57 PM Jardine, I'm not the one making a fool of myself YOU fail to comprehend the difference bet.....
» 14/11/2015 11:45:55 AM JF Aus, 1. I think you'd better read http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/water_vibrational_spectr.....
» 13/11/2015 3:40:19 PM "The point is, the State requires the payment of tax so it can spend it on whatever i.....
» 13/11/2015 3:39:43 PM Jardine, Since when did summarising the conclusions of papers linked to become an appeal .....
» 13/11/2015 2:21:58 PM JF Aus (continued) "Surely warmth in algae would have to be measured and assessed be.....
» 13/11/2015 2:18:51 PM JF Aus "1. How can dissolved CO2 (and dissolved oxygen) in ocean surface waters not .....
» 13/11/2015 1:00:57 PM imacentristmoderate, "Aidan, why do you want to create more poverty for the workers b.....
» 12/11/2015 11:27:44 PM John McRobert, Misevaluation of land is potentially a very big problem, but it's not unso.....
» 12/11/2015 10:22:06 PM JF Aus, "Algae absorbs CO2 so therefore algae absorbs warmth from CO2," I'm get.....
» 12/11/2015 11:38:52 AM ttbn, When the government spends money, it exists regardless of whether or not it existed.....
» 9/11/2015 12:50:06 PM Hi Loudmouth, I never claimed the hiatus was due to sunspot activity, and considering th.....
» 9/11/2015 11:04:20 AM "Most scientists close enough to the topic say: possibly. Some say: definitely. Some .....
» 8/11/2015 12:57:34 PM "I can agree Hussein was convicted and put to death as penalty. How can you possibly .....
» 7/11/2015 11:47:20 PM JF Aus, "What has Bashar al-Assad been convicted of?" There's no procedure to b.....
» 7/11/2015 7:06:39 PM I don't dispute the seriousness of his crimes, but after all these decades keeping him beh.....
» 7/11/2015 5:34:47 PM steve101, The thing about the conspiracy theories about the moon landings never happening .....
» 4/11/2015 11:45:52 AM This article displays a very poor understanding of public transport, and indeed of cities......
» 4/11/2015 11:14:24 AM The problem is that you, and indeed the government, view things like the NBN and the CEFC .....
» 4/11/2015 9:47:05 AM Hasbeen, "Foyle, the Labor South Australian governments have made the exploitation of.....
» 3/11/2015 7:06:41 PM Dear Mr Opinion, Ducks are more likely to waddle than wobble. The Scots are an internati.....
» 3/11/2015 11:09:17 AM Hasbeen, I am strongly opposed to a GST increase, but there is no need to resort to your .....
» 3/11/2015 9:48:47 AM imacenteristmoderate, Moderates like yourself? I can't imagine any real moderates being a.....
» 2/11/2015 7:45:37 PM Shadow, Britain is financially sovereign. They have unlimited credit. Gordon Brown was a.....
» 2/11/2015 6:00:48 PM Mr Opinion, Not all people of oriental ethnicity in Chatswood are foreign. Of those who a.....
» 1/11/2015 9:27:11 PM With their next election nnot until 2020, it's far too early to declare this a disaster fo.....
» 1/11/2015 2:23:19 PM rehctub, "So what you're both saying is that people who sell second hand houses only .....
» 31/10/2015 9:01:12 PM We know from experiments that chlorine monoxide is formed in the upper atmosphere from the.....
» 31/10/2015 8:28:38 PM Poirot and rehctub, So many prominent economists talk absolute crap that "patronisin.....
» 31/10/2015 3:26:32 PM Bazz, I never sad there was economic sense in operating six or seven refineries. But where.....
» 31/10/2015 12:45:54 AM Bazz, Sorry about the Joe confusion (I assumed six pack to be an ironic nickname). ".....
» 30/10/2015 12:04:26 PM Bazz, if Joe Hockey couldn't afford to pay his mortgage, I'm sure Labor would've got maxim.....
» 29/10/2015 7:23:14 PM ttbn, "I hope that Morrison, sooner rather than later, does to Turnbull what Turnbul.....
» 29/10/2015 9:43:51 AM Bazz, the reason I'm living in a business as usual world is that there is nothing to stop .....
» 29/10/2015 9:00:14 AM imacentristmoderate, "Aidan, selective breeding is a less polite way of saying arran.....
» 28/10/2015 2:36:01 PM ttbn, I too am an Australian citizen and voter. And the majority of voters in Australia re.....
» 28/10/2015 12:53:02 PM Wikipedia has a more accurate definition of eugenics: "Eugenics is a set of beliefs a.....
» 28/10/2015 10:49:46 AM ..."Governments should not spend money they don't have on 'make work' schemes;" .....
» 28/10/2015 10:47:43 AM ttbn, "Unless you run a business, have done the homework and are as sure as you can .....
» 27/10/2015 1:30:33 PM rehctub, You don't have to be an expert in that field; if you merely understood that the .....
» 27/10/2015 12:10:21 AM At first glance it's appalling — not least because the whole point of multiculturalism is .....
» 26/10/2015 11:38:18 PM ttbn (continued) Governments that confine themselves to regulation and defence will inevi.....
» 26/10/2015 11:10:58 PM (continued) When the private sector is weak (as it now is) it needs to be confident of its.....
» 26/10/2015 11:08:56 PM ttbn, Sorry, the BRA is a typo. I meant the RBA. Australia borrows exclusively on the do.....
» 26/10/2015 4:39:56 PM ttbn, The Australian government does not borrow in foreign currencies. It hasn't to any la.....
» 26/10/2015 12:39:13 AM WTF do you mean by "go broke"? Australia is a sovereign currency issuing nation.....
» 23/10/2015 1:08:21 PM Formation of blocs wouldn't make war any less likely — it would merely make the consequenc.....
» 22/10/2015 11:26:35 AM imacentristmoderate, "Ethiopia is in famine every year through over population, cou.....
» 22/10/2015 8:51:17 AM "Every nation in the world has signed up to the Universal Declaration." Unfortun.....
» 21/10/2015 5:08:11 PM Shadow, the fact that someone who once stood for the Greens in a local election has since .....
» 19/10/2015 7:50:34 PM doog, "Nationalize iron ore mining, and leave coal in the ground. With Bill and Mal I.....
» 19/10/2015 3:06:44 PM The entire premise of this thread is wrong. Bill Shorten was never popular in the first pl.....
» 19/10/2015 8:49:42 AM "The more spooks, spies and spivs we employ to spy on our and other citizens the outc.....
» 16/10/2015 11:00:32 AM Economic management was woeful under Gillard, worse under Abbott and it's too early to say.....
» 13/10/2015 8:11:23 PM imacentristmoderate, considering public housing is a state issue, it seems unlikely that t.....
» 13/10/2015 7:40:26 PM imacentristmoderate, if there were nothing contradictory in Islamc scripture at all, no pa.....
» 13/10/2015 7:27:11 PM doog, why do you think algae aren't plants? _____________________________________________.....
» 11/10/2015 2:17:43 PM imacentristmoderate, Islam teaches a lot of contradictory things. But even if everyone wen.....
» 11/10/2015 1:26:13 PM Islam is a religion not a race. However there are a lot of racists who use opposition to .....
» 11/10/2015 1:16:19 PM imacentristmoderate, what do you regard as PRODUCTIVE industries? How do you think our Lab.....
» 11/10/2015 12:12:54 AM 'Twas America's decision to steal the Iraqi oil revenue to fund the rebuilding of Iraq by .....
» 10/10/2015 1:12:10 PM imacentristmoderate, is that an attempt at irony?.....
» 10/10/2015 1:30:18 AM I'd like to know what the real story here is. The report gave the rather silly impression .....
» 6/10/2015 1:53:40 AM ttbn, if you know a lot about Islam then why did you make the blatantly false claim that &.....
» 5/10/2015 8:49:32 PM ttbn, If you think there's only one Islam then you clearly don't know much about it! There.....
» 5/10/2015 5:28:23 PM Banjo, why discriminate against all muslims because of the attitudes of a minority of them.....
» 4/10/2015 10:58:46 PM rehctub, The money comes from banks. It exists long before any profit is made. The alter.....
» 4/10/2015 3:06:53 PM ttbn, Paul, Before you cmplain about the difference between weekday and weekend prices, f.....
» 4/10/2015 2:27:19 AM Australia has its own currency, with a value determined by the market. This has two crucia.....
» 2/10/2015 2:19:59 PM I doubt there's anything anyone can do about it. The people will decide. A century from no.....
» 2/10/2015 12:24:36 PM JBowyer, the SEASONAL variability of ozone levels is indeed due to sunlight. For nearly ha.....
» 2/10/2015 10:59:58 AM There are certainly places where we should build more dams (along with some where we defin.....
» 30/09/2015 12:58:41 PM Some conservatives don't get population, and you (Simon Ross) appears to be among them! Wh.....
» 30/09/2015 12:11:55 PM Yet another article about climate change from someone who doesn't understand it! When peo.....
» 27/09/2015 7:56:00 PM LEGO, stop fooling yourself! Pinochet was an evil dictator whose actions can't be justifie.....
» 27/09/2015 2:26:09 AM Loudmouth, what question did that census actually ask?.....
» 27/09/2015 2:19:45 AM CHERFUL, even in America people are individuals not racial stereotypes!.....
» 26/09/2015 4:15:34 PM LEGO, "If you believe in Socialism, then you must believe in imprisoning people in co.....
» 25/09/2015 7:05:17 PM Absolutely no chance! Smartphones are no alternative, as running out of phone credit would.....
» 24/09/2015 3:38:06 AM Constance, I take that as a YES. And as for your question "Can you tell me why the .....
» 23/09/2015 11:42:43 AM Do we need artists to be the "compass" of society? Plenty of other people are ma.....
» 22/09/2015 8:28:16 PM If that's the case, Hasbeen, how long do you reckon Shorten will last as PM before Albo ch.....
» 21/09/2015 12:52:50 PM Baz, by what mechanism do you think the subprime loans bomb was triggered by high oil pric.....
» 21/09/2015 10:42:49 AM Bazz, the GFC was triggered by the subprime loan crisis, not high oil prices......
» 20/09/2015 1:56:19 PM Bazz, Iraq had long abandoned its plans to develop WMDs. For a while after the failure to.....
» 19/09/2015 10:53:04 PM Loudmouth, which two prominent Australians are you referring to? I'm presuming Cory Bernar.....
» 19/09/2015 4:55:56 PM Pete, SBS are showing Plantagenets at 5:30 today. From what I've heard, it makes the eve.....
» 18/09/2015 4:53:13 PM nicknamenick, you may think you're funny, but you're nothing other than tiresome......
» 18/09/2015 11:13:20 AM This article makes some outrageous claims, without any evidence. The statement that ".....
» 18/09/2015 2:19:47 AM Bazz, if there were a shortage of energy there would not be a glut. The economy not being .....
» 17/09/2015 7:31:30 PM Bazz, the problem at the moment is a shortage of money, not a shortage of energy. If there.....
» 17/09/2015 2:10:23 AM Little, I'm not denying there's a link between malnutrition and epidemic disease in genera.....
» 16/09/2015 11:17:45 PM Little, Disbelieving the claim that "None of them survive the facial tumour disease (.....
» 16/09/2015 8:12:35 PM G'day Little, I'm well aware of that. But claiming "Tasmanian devils are diseased bec.....
» 16/09/2015 3:10:11 PM Arjay, "What's the bet that Julie Bishop knowing Malcolm Turnbull will become a liabi.....
» 16/09/2015 10:51:21 AM ttbn, what do you think those conservative voters are going to do come the next election? .....
» 16/09/2015 10:38:09 AM It's well known that many of our ecosystems are well adapted to fire, and controlled burno.....
» 15/09/2015 7:47:11 PM Struth, Hasbeen, you seem to be stuck in the 1980s! The days when Australian railways wer.....
» 14/09/2015 8:18:45 PM I'm surprised Turnbull challenged so soon. I'd expected him to either wait till near elect.....
» 14/09/2015 2:37:42 AM BAYGON, Firstly, why the misspelling of CO2? Secondly, it's good to know Iceland is prog.....
» 14/09/2015 2:05:05 AM Loudmouth, Cameron's previously announced his intention to step down before the next elec.....
» 13/09/2015 9:30:22 PM Hasbeen, businesses don't run on an ethical basis alone. And unless the purpose is demonst.....
» 13/09/2015 12:49:54 PM What utter garbage Hasbeen! If the fuel the ethanol factories produce is more valuable th.....
» 13/09/2015 2:41:19 AM Idiotic article! For decades the USA and Europe have been paying their farmers to produce .....
» 8/09/2015 9:41:14 PM Peter, I'm not going to do your calculations for you! BTW unless you state exactly what .....
» 8/09/2015 9:28:40 PM rehctub, It's very misleading to clam the taxes no longer pay the bills. We're in the stag.....
» 8/09/2015 8:02:29 PM Luciferase, "How can something have value if it's not needed/wanted/consumed, constan.....
» 8/09/2015 5:21:25 PM Luciferase, "Shouldn't the industrial process be a needed one (hence come under the h.....
» 8/09/2015 11:55:04 AM Reaching a level of 50% renewables is relatively easy. Concentrated solar thermal with mol.....
» 8/09/2015 1:15:46 AM (continued) "Then there’s your ignorant dismissal of the classic economic text 'Econ.....
» 8/09/2015 1:15:18 AM Peter Lang, "A classic example of you not reading links and not looking back to see .....
» 7/09/2015 10:29:39 PM Shockadelic, "That is a choice that can be made under *any* tax system." Yes i.....
» 7/09/2015 9:28:07 PM rehctub, Firstly, apologies for omitting the r from your name last time. Secondly, your r.....
» 7/09/2015 1:16:52 PM ehctub, "As for the transaction tax, there is no reason B2B transaction can't be taxe.....
» 7/09/2015 1:16:10 PM Shockadelic, Cash is one way to avoid bank transactions. Offshoring is another. And a thir.....
» 7/09/2015 2:19:08 AM Peter, You're doing the things you accuse me of! I don't recall seeing the comment where .....
» 6/09/2015 10:24:35 PM rehctub, what you regard as "wiping the slate clean" is no such thing, for not o.....
» 6/09/2015 4:41:07 PM Peter, My comments are no more Greens' spin than yours are anti-Greens' spin. Nor were th.....
» 6/09/2015 2:40:52 AM Luciferase, "The idea of building and maintain massive renewable infrastructure, only.....
» 6/09/2015 2:31:21 AM Shockadelic, Australia has several big deserts, but there's a huge amount of Australia tha.....
» 5/09/2015 4:12:16 AM Well I for one am not worried. Australia is financially sovereign. Our debt to GDP ratio .....
» 4/09/2015 1:16:47 PM Rhosty, the GST's a turnover tax but at least it doesn't cascade. Businesses claim back th.....
» 4/09/2015 12:57:08 AM Wind power is economic if it has access to cheap finance. As indeed are solar PV and solar.....
» 3/09/2015 9:17:18 PM ttbn, doog is correct: the term "social engineering" does have that meaning. Ho.....
» 3/09/2015 7:00:18 PM Rhosty, GDP and GNP aren't very different in Australia. GNP (aka GNI) was $378376 millio.....
» 3/09/2015 12:32:47 PM Rhosty, why do you keep posting the ludicrous claim that "The total tax take from all.....
» 3/09/2015 2:34:14 AM Hasbeen, wind turbine lifespan obviously depends on the turbine design and the conditions .....
» 2/09/2015 9:05:27 PM Rhian, you may not have noticed it, but basing policy decisions on the NAIRU has been used.....
» 2/09/2015 4:15:29 PM ttbn, what's the problem with the author's name? ________________________________________.....
» 2/09/2015 2:26:24 PM It's idiotic rants like this article that give ecological sustainability a bad name. Indee.....
» 31/08/2015 9:31:34 PM This discussion seems go be based on the assumption that the alleged problem with Zoo Maga.....
» 30/08/2015 6:21:04 PM calwest, You are falsely accusing me of ignoring the monstrous cost of putting in place en.....
» 29/08/2015 12:39:58 AM Maybe a better question would be: why were the other struggling companies in the industry .....
» 28/08/2015 11:25:54 PM Hasbeen, that's uncalled for! Bob Brown's sexuality is his own business and is irrelevant .....
» 28/08/2015 11:22:58 PM calwest, You are incorrect. You DON'T need coal fired generation as baseload backup. You d.....
» 28/08/2015 4:01:26 PM Tombee, though sun and wind power are intermittent, they are very very very far from feebl.....
» 28/08/2015 3:21:07 PM (continued) Though I don't always agree with them, Tim Flannery's views are fairly sensib.....
» 28/08/2015 3:19:35 PM Lomborg certainly shouldn't be silenced. Though he's often wrong on the details, his basic.....
» 28/08/2015 12:16:28 PM John seems to have failed to realise that generating electricity from renewables has a ver.....
» 28/08/2015 12:25:28 AM Hi Loudmouth, There are a lot of myths about the way things are run in Greece, and indeed.....
» 27/08/2015 12:20:51 PM So John Slater blames the "nanny state" for the decisions of a corporation, and .....
» 27/08/2015 12:04:46 PM Jonathan J. Ariel, It's nothing to do with sticking it to anyone. The objective would be.....
» 26/08/2015 9:41:41 PM Yes, Loudmouth. 6.8 million votes actually. _____________________________________________.....
» 26/08/2015 5:01:42 PM Hi Loudmouth, I don't understand your objection here. Unions are not the customers, so th.....
» 26/08/2015 11:01:44 AM That's not what dinosaur unions are! Dinosaur unions are the ones that see everything as .....
» 25/08/2015 1:14:26 PM The Blair brand is toxic. Not because of what he's done since leaving, but because of what.....
» 23/08/2015 8:11:44 PM warmair, It has recently been discovered that a substantial saving in the amount of energ.....
» 22/08/2015 4:47:10 PM Shadow, i don't think that spplies to Royal Commissions as they have no litigants......
» 22/08/2015 2:43:53 PM Jonathan, it's obvious that you don't admire Obama. That's fair enough, but your criticism.....
» 20/08/2015 7:48:49 PM Why such a militaristic response, Rhosty? do you really think the government should waste .....
» 20/08/2015 12:35:52 PM We shouldn't suck up to China (or Japan or even Indonesia). Kevin Rudd had the right idea.....
» 19/08/2015 6:32:04 PM ttbn, I think the opposite is the case. Most of the Left want Labor to win the next electi.....
» 18/08/2015 2:12:13 PM Graeme of Malvern, can't you even finish reading a sentence before replying? Warmair didn.....
» 17/08/2015 8:31:32 PM Arjay, I deny what you claim is reality because there's no real evidence for it! I know th.....
» 17/08/2015 8:19:32 PM lamp, the constitution does not require a referendum for this, but nor does it prevent par.....
» 17/08/2015 3:10:20 AM Arjay, despite their high gross value, the net value of those contracts is zero. The clai.....
» 17/08/2015 2:39:20 AM Shadow, Yes, it's one of two potential sources of instability in the system (the other be.....
» 15/08/2015 10:52:21 PM Hasbeen, Australia is financially sovereign: we own the Reserve Bank and can always borrow.....
» 15/08/2015 9:44:31 PM Bazz, I repeat: Australia has not signed any treaty which jeopardises the security of bank.....
» 14/08/2015 11:31:32 AM Bazz, we have not signed any agreements which alter the risk to bank depositors......
» 14/08/2015 11:26:36 AM Though I disagree with a few details of your argument (like 18C) I agree with the sentimen.....
» 14/08/2015 11:19:20 AM The term "sovereign debt" has a specific meaning: government debt in a foreign c.....
» 13/08/2015 10:15:57 PM (Sorry, the above post was directed at Shadow Minister; I don't know why I mentioned Rhost.....
» 13/08/2015 9:35:30 PM Shadow, Rhosty, I think you misunderstand about assumptions. Most of them are nothing to .....
» 13/08/2015 4:59:56 PM Shadow, some of what you think are facts are highly dependent on assumptions. Others are m.....
» 13/08/2015 11:51:49 AM Curmudgeon, solar thermal is capital intensive, so whether it is competitive with conventi.....
» 13/08/2015 3:44:01 AM URL fixed: http://www.utexas.edu/courses/rome/210reasons.html Bazz, I'm baffled as to why.....
» 13/08/2015 1:11:11 AM Graeme of Malvern, No, your scenario couldn't happen. Firstly, as has already been pointe.....
» 12/08/2015 1:29:27 AM Shadow, I'm well aware that the output from solar PV and wind is less stable than from fos.....
» 11/08/2015 12:21:13 PM Is Mise, if you regard anything less than 100% success as failure, you're going to be very.....
» 11/08/2015 12:01:25 PM No, Bazz, demand management is completely different from load shedding. Load shedding is .....
» 10/08/2015 6:55:30 PM Shadow, what you claim are "the facts" are nothing of the sort, for they rest on.....
» 9/08/2015 4:39:55 PM Which government? The laws on this are different in every state!.....
» 9/08/2015 4:37:36 PM rhosty, although rates are (in some areas) related to unimproved land value, they don't re.....
» 9/08/2015 2:57:39 AM Is Mise, one of the NRA's purported objection to our gun laws is that they prevent good pe.....
» 9/08/2015 2:16:35 AM Rhosty, before you say I've got it backwards, stop making silly guesses as to what my posi.....
» 8/08/2015 2:12:31 PM Is Mise, while it's true the gun laws didn't prevent Monis from obtaining a gun, taking ho.....
» 7/08/2015 10:09:43 PM Rhosty, the exact opposite is the case. If, instead of introducing the GST, the Howard gov.....
» 7/08/2015 12:12:13 PM This article is based on a false premise: it conflates foreign debt with public debt. But .....
» 6/08/2015 1:56:29 PM There will be no debt crisis; China can afford to throw good money after bad. For all inte.....
» 6/08/2015 12:06:05 PM Daffy I think you spoke too soon!.....
» 6/08/2015 12:02:40 PM Max, the 'many who want to call RELIABLE electricity at night superfluous" don't actu.....
» 6/08/2015 11:20:01 AM The obvious difference between climate and weather doesn't seem to affect daft ignorists......
» 6/08/2015 2:25:36 AM (Continued) REPLACING OIL WITH ELECTRIC CARS Many of us will charge electric cars when th.....
» 6/08/2015 2:24:56 AM Max Green, if you look at the reasons for the predictions, you'll see the apparent contrad.....
» 5/08/2015 2:44:19 PM steve101, that makes no sense at all. Whether overseas made goods are sold has no bearing .....
» 5/08/2015 11:55:04 AM doog, "AU is headed on a collision course with a ratings for credit downgrade." .....
» 5/08/2015 1:17:07 AM LEGO, socialists would be mad if they hated the productive sides of their country. But ver.....
» 4/08/2015 9:43:12 PM Bazz, Electrification of paddocks is totally impractical. But battery electric tractors co.....
» 4/08/2015 12:24:06 PM Hey Armchair, When the government has more money coming in than going out, it means it's .....
» 3/08/2015 11:41:59 PM Bazz, what makes you think global trade will be reducing over the coming years?.....
» 3/08/2015 10:25:48 PM Bazz, What the rest of the world is now experiencing isn't gravity, it's the results of t.....
» 3/08/2015 6:18:58 PM Rhosty you seem to be conflating the EU and the Eurozone. But Denmark, Sweden and the UK d.....
» 3/08/2015 2:21:29 PM Foxy, there's plenty of water, but most of it's in Northern Australia. There's also plenty.....
» 3/08/2015 12:04:33 PM Armchair, you don't seem to have thought through that list of things you want. Making pref.....
» 3/08/2015 2:02:52 AM onthebeach, WTF are you on about? Do you think Triggs should've refrained from pointing ou.....
» 2/08/2015 7:24:33 PM But why do you see that as a negative factor?.....
» 2/08/2015 6:57:23 PM Foxy, why do you think they should rule out "old men like Philip Ruddock"? I'd .....
» 2/08/2015 3:05:06 PM I'm not so sure, Luciferase. The heat was certainly on Peter Slipper even though he was an.....
» 2/08/2015 2:16:13 AM Hasbeen, are you referring to those old wind turbines from the1980s that are much smaller .....
» 1/08/2015 7:03:13 PM The Kevin '07 election campaign, Shadow? ISTR most of the scaremongering was done by the L.....
» 1/08/2015 4:14:03 PM steve101, I'd expect a road engineer to have a degree in civil engineering, and some of wh.....
» 1/08/2015 3:49:02 PM Rhosty, your accusation that I've never seen a deficit I don't like is baseless. You don't.....
» 31/07/2015 3:05:53 PM kirby483,I'm baffled as to how you arrived at the figure of 60 cents in the dollar. WTF do.....
» 31/07/2015 12:14:54 PM Self contradictory article displaying economic illiteracy! First whinges about the cost of.....
» 29/07/2015 11:53:51 PM Hasbeen, your response is extremely hypocritical — you frequently display the faults that .....
» 29/07/2015 2:02:43 PM warmair it's not actually fiction. It's just a bunch of irrelevant, mostly obvious, facts .....
» 29/07/2015 12:27:43 PM Rhosty, methanol is too toxic to be used as a petrol substitute, and ethanol has a better .....
» 29/07/2015 12:08:00 PM In terms of the silliest anti windfarm spiel, this article ranks second: beaten only by th.....
» 28/07/2015 1:52:54 AM Hasbeen, are you seriously suggesting that Plibersek or Palaszczuk would put Poland's inte.....
» 27/07/2015 11:23:50 PM Taswegian, SA's electricity connection capacity to the eastern seaboard is very limited. T.....
» 26/07/2015 8:48:30 PM Leo, Considering that you're so pig ignorant of the science that I have to keep explaining.....
» 26/07/2015 1:03:37 PM Europe's merely easing off the accelerator. Whereas in Australia, the government stamped h.....
» 24/07/2015 10:56:22 PM How long must we have to wait for a major party to stop trying to deter refugees and inste.....
» 24/07/2015 10:46:20 PM It's not conventional online shopping that's the main threat, it's digital downloads. Stil.....
» 23/07/2015 11:29:11 AM This article's badly edited: the NRA hasn't "campaigned against armour-piercing bulle.....
» 23/07/2015 2:39:41 AM Struth, Leo, I spent half my last post explaining facts that you'd dismissed as nonsense b.....
» 22/07/2015 7:04:12 PM Leo Lane, calling a fact "nonsense" doesn't stop it from being true, and if it m.....
» 22/07/2015 2:21:26 PM Curmudgeon, I'm well aware backup is needed - indeed I said it would be logical to conclud.....
» 22/07/2015 11:49:26 AM Leo Lane, Oh, you mean gross emissions. OK, I concede that nature emits and absorbs a hug.....
» 22/07/2015 3:47:10 AM Hi Rhian, In the long term I'd make up the shortfall by replacing it with a broad based l.....
» 22/07/2015 3:05:11 AM Leo Lane, what you call a fact is actually a lie. Before the industrial revolution, atmosp.....
» 21/07/2015 6:29:14 PM Leo, have I understood you correctly: because someone found a flaw in one of John Cook's c.....
» 21/07/2015 3:52:30 PM ConservativeHippie, I based my statement on http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-chan.....
» 21/07/2015 3:09:47 PM Bazz, Aussie malls have closed before and I would' t be surprised if a few small ones do a.....
» 21/07/2015 2:38:55 PM (continued) And what is the source of your claim that... "Also early this year in Jan.....
» 21/07/2015 2:36:47 PM Graeme Weber – When you say wind turbines do not work, what you actually mean is wind turb.....
» 21/07/2015 12:19:12 PM Rhosty, despite the fact that I've pointed out your mistake before, you're still conflatin.....
» 20/07/2015 10:40:06 PM Dear Yuyutsu, I mean "outlaws" in the original sense: people outside the protec.....
» 20/07/2015 9:43:01 PM Bazz, I can't believe you didn't know the energy content of fuel is greater than that of t.....
» 20/07/2015 6:24:35 PM Leo Lane, I think you'd better read http://www.skepticalscience.com/peer-reviewed-response.....
» 20/07/2015 6:16:46 PM Yuyutsu, Do you really think anyone would be better off if there were loads of outlaws ar.....
» 20/07/2015 2:42:07 PM Armchair, being confused is no excuse for reverting to the false assumption that central b.....
» 20/07/2015 10:25:07 AM Rhosty, your information is wrong yet again. For a start the Great Barrier Reef is nowhere.....
» 20/07/2015 1:59:00 AM Is it not obvious from the context? I'm referring to the energy content of the fuel that g.....
» 19/07/2015 5:57:08 PM Oh I see , Bazz — someone graphs a rather trivial mathematical relationship, runs the hori.....
» 19/07/2015 1:57:05 PM onthebeach, this isn't anything to do with the Greens. And generally the scare campaigns o.....
» 19/07/2015 1:10:07 PM Rhosty, according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_threats_to_the_Great_Ba.....
» 18/07/2015 10:17:11 PM Bazz, what curve are you referring to? BTW ITYM lower input cells......
» 18/07/2015 2:45:46 PM Shadow, do I understand correctly: you're accusing the Greens of taking donations from the.....
» 18/07/2015 1:47:39 PM Two problems, Bazz: Firstly the EROEI of solar and wind is much higher than you say it is.....
» 18/07/2015 12:02:40 PM On the contrary, Jardine. I'm well aware that real wealth comes from productive activity, .....
» 18/07/2015 2:52:48 AM Armchair Critic, Australia is sovereign. The fact that a few foreigners have decided to b.....
» 17/07/2015 2:17:12 PM Beach, Isn't representing Australia's interests overseas part of our acting head of state.....
» 17/07/2015 2:08:36 PM Armchair we've discussed this before, but you seem to have developed amnesia. Australia is.....
» 16/07/2015 11:41:21 AM "This is quite normal, but it is a very unsound basis for public policy. Suicide is s.....
» 16/07/2015 11:03:01 AM ConservativeHippie, "Short memories conveniently erase the failures, the lies and th.....
» 15/07/2015 1:43:25 PM Rhosty, Thoruum reactors would not produce the world's cheapest electricity. They don't e.....
» 15/07/2015 3:52:06 AM All, I don't think there's much point continuing this discussion with Jardine, as he seem.....
» 15/07/2015 3:51:37 AM Jardine, "What kind of idiot asserts a net benefit by ignoring the costs?" Proba.....
» 14/07/2015 5:14:11 PM Seems clear from what evidence, runner?.....
» 14/07/2015 12:48:52 PM Cobber, asbestos causes two different medical problems: asbestosis and mesothelioma. Asbes.....
» 12/07/2015 4:13:47 PM To LEGO, "You just stereotyped 'racists' by claiming that racists use the term 'self .....
» 12/07/2015 1:36:43 PM Shadow Minister and ConservativeHippie, "I also wonder why the left whingers on this .....
» 11/07/2015 3:06:29 PM doog, AIUI it's proposed to shift it to a different production unit, not a different chann.....
» 6/07/2015 3:07:56 PM To LEGO, Calling something "self evident" tends to coincide with a lack of actu.....
» 6/07/2015 1:44:09 PM Hasbeen, We'l never ever be in the same boat. Greece is in this mess because it joined th.....
» 6/07/2015 12:44:31 AM LEGO, you may (though I doubt it) know what trendy lefties think, but certainly don't know.....
» 5/07/2015 7:11:22 PM Leo Lane, Micaileff congratulated Abbott several times since then. Regarding Mallah's twe.....
» 3/07/2015 1:17:56 AM BTW Shaun Micallef congratulated the PM earlier this year, but I don't remember whether he.....
» 3/07/2015 1:05:26 AM London to a brick, huh Lego? You've badly miscalculated there, for my degree is in civil e.....
» 2/07/2015 11:47:30 AM David Robertson, "To claim that if the additional 634,068 students in non-government.....
» 2/07/2015 11:37:40 AM Robert LePage, the USA has its own currency. It sets its own credit limit that it can alwa.....
» 2/07/2015 11:03:40 AM 5. If that were the philosophy of the ABC, the ABC would indeed be biased. The fact that t.....
» 2/07/2015 11:01:12 AM To LEGO, 1. You don't know me at all. It is only your rightwing bias that makes the ABC l.....
» 1/07/2015 2:53:05 PM Jardine, "Notice how no-one can defend state interventions in education other than by.....
» 1/07/2015 11:14:10 AM LEGO, 1. Why do you regard me as a social regressive? 2. If my objective were to look int.....
» 1/07/2015 10:43:29 AM LEGO, firstly, have you any evidence they haven't been fair and impartial about it? Secon.....
» 1/07/2015 10:37:23 AM Funding? No, that's done by the governments, not the people. How governments obtain their .....
» 30/06/2015 11:38:14 PM Leo Lane "Aiden, they are already alienated, if they are open in any way, to joining .....
» 30/06/2015 10:29:29 PM farmerfisher, there's two more problems with your idea: Firstly, where would we get all t.....
» 30/06/2015 8:59:29 PM LEGO, what you think everyone else knows is actually just what people expect. And that's j.....
» 30/06/2015 6:34:59 PM Leo Lane, "The suggestion that the Minister missed an opportunity to respond reasonab.....
» 30/06/2015 2:55:59 PM onthebeach, do you think the ABC should only let the tough questions be put to those you d.....
» 30/06/2015 12:45:08 PM (continued) "and that problems of scarcity are magically solved by threats of force&q.....
» 30/06/2015 1:11:18 AM (continued) 3. "It remains valid, and your argument is invalid, to the extent that th.....
» 30/06/2015 12:37:18 AM Jardine, I think I've worked out why you think I'm contradicting myself: our exchanges hav.....
» 29/06/2015 11:20:42 PM Jardine, of course I understand! I am not suggesting (and would NEVER EVER suggest) printi.....
» 29/06/2015 6:18:00 PM Essentially this is all just tinkering round the edges. Labor should be challenging the go.....
» 29/06/2015 1:54:20 AM (continued) Your fourth objection appears to be a fishing expedition for contradictions. B.....
» 29/06/2015 1:53:25 AM Struth, Jardine, you're really clutching at straws now! You're whinging because I didn't d.....
» 28/06/2015 1:05:33 AM No, Jardine, none of that's correct! Firstly, it's only "indoctrination" in the.....
» 27/06/2015 10:06:18 PM stevenlmeyer, It is not ideology itself that makes people stupid, but use of ideological .....
» 27/06/2015 12:22:45 PM LEGO, Did you even watch the show? The panel weren't all left wing; they had a diverse ra.....
» 27/06/2015 1:11:43 AM runner, WTF are you on about? What are these Christophic rants? Whose hatred of Israel are.....
» 27/06/2015 12:39:27 AM Jardine, In answer to your earlier question, yes I do. In fact I support all the provisio.....
» 26/06/2015 3:03:54 PM Jardine, it wasn't me who was against all compulsion of any kind. I think it was Yuyutsu. .....
» 26/06/2015 2:25:36 PM Aristocrat, you've got it completely wrong. The Left recognises that many people are victi.....
» 26/06/2015 1:50:37 PM plantagenet, there are a few things that should be exempt from FOI. Matters subject to ong.....
» 26/06/2015 12:05:48 PM I strongly disagree. "On the one hand, I doubt that most of the people on their boat.....
» 26/06/2015 12:52:58 AM Is Mise, while I agree they shouldn't ban the sale of non compliant mobility devices, sure.....
» 25/06/2015 10:43:25 PM Jardine No I'm not! (I'm tempted to leave it there, just contradicting you, but I think .....
» 25/06/2015 5:57:01 PM Peter West, you say "the 'Building the Education Revolution' program was a waste of p.....
» 25/06/2015 11:00:32 AM The problem with the right whingers is that they have long been deceived by their own prop.....
» 24/06/2015 1:07:20 AM Philip S, how do you think the NDIS is open to fraudsters? The NDIS is expensive, but it'.....
» 24/06/2015 1:03:12 AM stevenlmeyer, >>How bad is Abbott really?>> It depends on your information s.....
» 24/06/2015 12:54:14 AM runner, the economy depends on spending money. Most of the money wouldn't even exist had i.....
» 24/06/2015 12:43:55 AM runner, "Nice try at economics Aidan however can you name one surplus that the Federa.....
» 23/06/2015 2:28:56 PM Seriously, rehctub? You think those are the WORST decisions? I admit the first one's pret.....
» 23/06/2015 1:50:42 PM onthebeach, "The Abbott government has a responsibility to extract the country from i.....
» 23/06/2015 1:54:37 AM Nice try, Bazz, but the problem is that the governments have picked the wrong TIME to bala.....
» 22/06/2015 6:35:22 PM Here we see another huge strawman: finding an issue that many on the Left are concerned ab.....
» 22/06/2015 6:22:02 PM Even before the cuts in interest rates, credit cards were already highly profitable for th.....
» 22/06/2015 6:13:00 PM No, Philiip S, I haven't missed it at all. FIAT money is backed by the need to pay taxes, .....
» 22/06/2015 5:02:38 PM There are many sane other ways, ttbn, including financing it from the increased tax revenu.....
» 22/06/2015 1:27:42 PM Australia is a sovereign currency issuer, and therefore has unlimited credit. The time to .....
» 18/06/2015 11:08:23 AM Is it really so bad that a union recognises the need for operations to be reliable and pro.....
» 16/06/2015 5:50:47 PM ttbn, Peter Lang isn't an environmentalist, turbine rent seeker or politician, so your sta.....
» 16/06/2015 12:06:43 PM david f, thinking about it a bit more, your earlier description of bible study sounds like.....
» 16/06/2015 11:55:21 AM Peter, it is an argument, not a fact, that wind turbines save much less emissions than is .....
» 15/06/2015 9:58:46 PM David f, proper bible study does look at the context. And if the objective is to make it c.....
» 15/06/2015 2:35:34 AM (continued) If the railway track is under a foot of water, it could mean the ground under .....
» 15/06/2015 2:34:26 AM Rhosty, Yes, tickets on foreign airlines are a form of imports. But I see this as a relat.....
» 14/06/2015 9:26:52 PM o sung wu, I never claimed I did know the number of people drowning while trying to reach .....
» 14/06/2015 4:40:37 PM runner, Ms Triggs is very serious, and unbiased despite a few gullible people falling for .....
» 13/06/2015 11:57:14 PM Jonathan J. Ariel, I'm not saying we should demand equal access. But I don't think it woul.....
» 13/06/2015 12:04:32 PM Rhosty, I can tell you don't know much about railways – for a start you don't know the dif.....
» 12/06/2015 6:08:07 PM Ponder, the difference is the result of better technology, not competition. Competition h.....
» 12/06/2015 2:15:12 PM It's not just about the profitability of our airlines, but also the workers. Wages on fore.....
» 10/06/2015 2:18:56 PM 'Tis a lot more difficult than that to manufacture helium. Some sort of nuclear process is.....
» 9/06/2015 9:16:47 PM Armchair, Assad's false flag operations (killing Syrians and blaming others) are what spa.....
» 9/06/2015 11:38:47 AM Assad should've been removed when he used chemical weapons against Syrians, but Russia pre.....
» 8/06/2015 11:19:35 PM Bazz, most magnetrons are in microwave ovens, not radar transmitters. Australia is financ.....
» 8/06/2015 12:32:00 PM Rhosty, you misunderstand. The magnetic drives that propels maglevs are called linear indu.....
» 7/06/2015 1:46:17 PM Rhrosty, magnetrons are not a mode of transport. If you mean maglevs, none has yet reache.....
» 6/06/2015 12:59:22 AM It's not cognitive dissonance, nor any of the silly things the other commenters allege. Ra.....
» 5/06/2015 11:45:02 PM ConservativeHippie, although Kelvin was wrong on the oxygen issue, the air pressure on a h.....
» 5/06/2015 3:00:16 PM Toni Lavis, why, after your sensible post yesterday, are you posting such crap today? Kel.....
» 29/05/2015 12:34:59 PM Suburbs are indeed very important. But do you have any actual evidence that they're being .....
» 28/05/2015 4:54:29 PM Rhosty, “Joe, I don't pretend to know as much as Craig on this topic, but I do know somet.....
» 28/05/2015 4:42:59 PM We shouldn't strip these people of their citizenship because doing so would remove our abi.....
» 28/05/2015 2:18:57 AM Luciferase, "Free energy" isn't my mantra, and my objection to Prieto and Hall'.....
» 27/05/2015 9:45:03 PM Arjay, the RBA is among the "very little" that is publicly owned. And I don't .....
» 27/05/2015 7:52:10 PM Arjay, our central bank is in public ownership, as are the central banks of nearly every o.....
» 25/05/2015 11:55:03 PM Peter, "I'm not going to bother with changing your nappies for you every time you cr.....
» 25/05/2015 6:06:41 PM Peter I'm not being dishonest. Though there wasn't a dollar sign in your earlier comment (.....
» 25/05/2015 4:40:12 PM Peter your assumption that I haven't studied the links you provided is wrong. I did, but b.....
» 25/05/2015 3:42:36 PM Peter Lang, The nuclear safety standards are not to blame for causing about 1.3 million .....
» 24/05/2015 1:36:14 AM Luciferase, I'm well aware that driving cars and flying have greater risk by multi-magni.....
» 22/05/2015 1:55:27 PM Yet another article by someone who doesn't know what economic growth really is! It's not g.....
» 21/05/2015 1:15:41 AM Spencer, There is so little additional capacity that many, including the government, don'.....
» 20/05/2015 10:12:31 AM Peter Lang, “safety first” is THE appropriate balance of all costs and risks, including th.....
» 20/05/2015 2:35:19 AM Peter Lang, why, when you keep posting that intellectual honesty link, do you persist in d.....
» 20/05/2015 2:18:51 AM Spencer Wright, Such an agreement brings more money into the economy. Temporarily, but th.....
» 20/05/2015 12:02:19 AM ConservativeHippie, I think you wrote something similar on another thread and I said I'd r.....
» 17/05/2015 1:23:23 PM Spencer Wright, sorry I linked to the wrong part of the page. Have a look at the Standing .....
» 16/05/2015 7:29:22 PM Spencer Wright, there is no law preventing the RBA from creating currency out of nothing. .....
» 16/05/2015 4:01:45 PM Spencer Wright, the RBA is independent from government in its day to day operations, but i.....
» 16/05/2015 4:00:45 PM Peter Lang, I'm not surprised that Germany's renewables have led to lower wholesale prices.....
» 16/05/2015 12:07:06 AM Spencer Wright, it simply isn't true that "Australia has limited capital to invest in.....
» 14/05/2015 11:06:38 PM Peter Lang, Even if the private sector are reluctant to take the risk, the fact remains t.....
» 14/05/2015 4:57:59 PM ttbn, foreign aid does not remove money from the poorer in rich countries. The government .....
» 14/05/2015 2:17:33 PM The problem with economic trajectories is that the government assumes them to be linear (o.....
» 13/05/2015 11:32:00 AM 2% growth is not enough, and we need a fiscal stimulus to keep us out of recession. And t.....
» 13/05/2015 9:55:53 AM LEGO, Islam is a religion, not a terrorist organization nor a philosophy of persecuting ce.....
» 11/05/2015 11:35:18 AM Amazingly I'm almost in complete agreement with David Leyonhjelm. Except for one thing: I.....
» 11/05/2015 11:12:48 AM Luciferase, I have thought of the planet Earth, but it receives an enormous amount of ener.....
» 10/05/2015 8:03:49 PM Arjay your tinfoil hat appears to be interfering with your ability to think. The BIS isn't.....
» 10/05/2015 6:23:33 PM Arjay, do you even know what counterfeiting is? And remind us how many seats the UKIP gai.....
» 10/05/2015 5:53:08 PM Gordon Brown, as Blair's chancellor, was a terrible economic manager. He was more concerne.....
» 10/05/2015 3:32:47 PM Bazz, I have no objection to comparing local government rates etc. If you want to make an.....
» 10/05/2015 12:23:24 PM Armchair, I'll listen when they have something worth listeninng to. But when one of Tony A.....
» 9/05/2015 5:07:33 PM Bazz, whether the energy needed to produce the steel and the energy needed to manufacture .....
» 9/05/2015 12:09:27 AM Luciferase, the "barely positive" value becomes strongly positive in any honest .....
» 8/05/2015 12:03:28 PM Bazz, the main differences are indeed the boundaries. Money is not energy; it belongs outs.....
» 8/05/2015 1:53:44 AM Bazz, I think YOU'D better read that last link yoiu posted. All of it. Particularly my Apr.....
» 7/05/2015 10:54:39 AM hermit, you're wrong about the basis of my assumption. It's based on the law of conservati.....
» 5/05/2015 4:40:12 PM hermit, the only circumstances under which what you say is true are if the wind power is r.....
» 4/05/2015 6:46:17 PM ttbn, when SA's electricity price was said to be the highest in the world, we didn't have .....
» 4/05/2015 5:37:29 PM Peter, I apologise for wrongly conflating your first and second graphs. However, I appear .....
» 4/05/2015 11:45:08 AM Peter the inverse proportionality you claim as fact is just conjecture — and rather illogi.....
» 3/05/2015 12:07:11 AM Hasbeen, I don't think anyone said new dams WOULD never fill. A few said they MAY never fi.....
» 2/05/2015 5:35:56 PM ttbn, I obviously didn't make myself clear enough. Apart from the harm caused by the polit.....
» 2/05/2015 4:03:29 PM Rhosty, I stand by my claim that the small modular thorium power stations don't exist yet......
» 1/05/2015 6:31:50 PM If car manufacturers could build their components cheaper than buying them, they probably .....
» 1/05/2015 6:31:02 PM Rhosty, if transmission losses were 17% and distribution losses 50%, total losses would be.....
» 1/05/2015 4:47:35 PM ttbn, of course I have no trouble answering. Japan would be a more appropriate example of .....
» 1/05/2015 2:10:40 PM VK3AUU, Australia has very little government debt by world standards, despite unlimited cr.....
» 1/05/2015 12:26:05 PM Outrider, I would like to see it financed with extra debt rather than extra taxes. Firstly.....
» 1/05/2015 10:00:19 AM ateday, that way we get neither good infrastructure nor the means to fund it......
» 30/04/2015 7:26:29 PM Rhosty, read my comment in the Revitalising Manufacturing thread before you go on digging .....
» 29/04/2015 7:38:01 PM Rhosty, what you assume to be a lack of research on my part is actually a lack of research.....
» 29/04/2015 7:04:06 PM plerdsus, I don't recall you saying it before, and had you done so I'd've informed you tha.....
» 29/04/2015 10:04:15 AM Hasbeen, the rubbish that Ted is pushing does not feature the centralized control and the .....
» 29/04/2015 1:11:59 AM Murray Hunter, you've got some things right but you're mostly wrong. Fiscal deficits do no.....
» 28/04/2015 11:16:24 AM Hasbeen, why the rant against communism when nobody in this thread is advocating it? ____.....
» 27/04/2015 2:24:05 PM The "simpler way" site appears to be total crap, as it's based on incorrect assu.....
» 26/04/2015 5:23:19 PM Dear Yuyutsu, So Krishna avoided this dirty work thus threw it on his disciple instead, t.....
» 25/04/2015 7:42:35 PM ConservativeHippie, do you have any evidence that Flannery ever made that claim? It seems .....
» 25/04/2015 4:15:17 PM EQ, you've overlooked the most crucial aspect: the "sceptics" aren't just puttin.....
» 25/04/2015 2:53:44 PM Yuyutsu, that quote appears to be from one of the privileged, wanting others to do the wor.....
» 20/04/2015 1:04:10 PM Arjay, although money technically costs nothing to produce, producing too much of it resul.....
» 20/04/2015 12:55:28 PM rehctub, when people can't be confident their children will survive to produce grandchildr.....
» 18/04/2015 8:45:36 PM Rhrosty, your claim that "The Germans are shutting down their old nuclear power stati.....
» 18/04/2015 2:22:37 AM Hasbeen, society in Australia depends on the public purse to a great extent. Whether or no.....
» 17/04/2015 4:13:09 PM I'm amazed that it is expected that only 20 of the 110 SA sub branches will survive the ne.....
» 17/04/2015 12:52:29 PM Hasbeen, do you actually believe, or even just think it possible, that we could reduce CO2.....
» 17/04/2015 11:10:48 AM No Yuyutsu, they wouldn't need to be omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent, just benevole.....
» 17/04/2015 11:05:51 AM When David Leyonhjelm says "Nobody believes this is possible" what he really mea.....
» 17/04/2015 2:22:34 AM The only reason local currencies are ever needed is to compensate for the mismanagement of.....
» 16/04/2015 11:15:25 PM Banjo, why do assign such a high priority to paying off thhe government debt? Doing so mea.....
» 16/04/2015 2:17:11 PM Afternoon spindoc, As I'm a Christian I've become rather desensitised to being on the rec.....
» 16/04/2015 1:11:44 PM Rhosty, is there anything you don't blame the greens for? CO2 is causing global warming w.....
» 16/04/2015 10:16:40 AM Wherever the terrorists exist there's likely to be horrific humanitarian problems, with or.....
» 15/04/2015 2:42:36 PM Shadow, I don't think those aspirational goals (which they list as aims) were even populis.....
» 15/04/2015 12:32:20 PM Shadow, despite that small flaw which is only an aspiration anyway (they certainly WEREN'T.....
» 15/04/2015 12:16:04 PM JF Aus, I was under the impression that marine algae had a strong cooling effect due to th.....
» 15/04/2015 2:33:19 AM LEGO, everybody may prejudge but that doesn't make it right. When someone identifies your .....
» 14/04/2015 11:54:48 PM Evening spindoc, On the contrary, I have alrady pointed out the flaws in Patrick's argume.....
» 14/04/2015 6:04:25 PM Hasbeen, there are quite a lot of places that I care about despite not wanting to stick ar.....
» 14/04/2015 12:32:49 PM Is Mise, as a transport engineer it's in my field, and further up this thread I've already.....
» 14/04/2015 12:23:38 PM Although it sounds absurd to claim we all know it, many engineers genuinely aren't in it f.....
» 14/04/2015 11:22:46 AM Bazz, it's not ten minutes, it's a little under 5. And rather than Western NSW, it's somew.....
» 14/04/2015 11:07:47 AM It shows just how far The Australian has deteriorated when it publishes ignorant articles .....
» 13/04/2015 11:37:49 PM Bazz, your post makes no sense. SA is currently 9.5 hours ahead of GMT, and is 10.5 ahead .....
» 13/04/2015 12:52:30 PM Yes, Paul, you're not the one asking, but you're the one misdirecting Is Mise to the NSW t.....
» 13/04/2015 11:43:39 AM Paul and Is Mise, the Greens didn't actually promise to do anything specific to that effec.....
» 12/04/2015 10:47:34 PM Is Mise, No, we don't have full emoloyment because the government isn't spending the savi.....
» 12/04/2015 8:15:53 PM LEGO, the situation you took exception to turned out to be the truth. You've admitted your.....
» 12/04/2015 1:45:02 PM Struth, LEGO, it's taken you just two days to go from taking exception to my identifying y.....
» 11/04/2015 3:54:32 PM LEGO, of course you take exception to my claims of prejudice on your part. But when you po.....
» 11/04/2015 1:33:13 PM runner, there's an enormous difference between nudity and sex.. Rolf and Jimmy weren't &qu.....
» 11/04/2015 12:09:55 PM runner, in response to your earlier question, SBS is still SBS but the stuff it shows gene.....
» 10/04/2015 4:49:33 PM Hasbeen – Where would the trains go? The planned freight terminal at Moorebank is the obv.....
» 10/04/2015 10:58:45 AM runner, that argument may have been credible twenty years ago, but the internet has change.....
» 10/04/2015 10:55:59 AM Array, the claim that "There is no democracy without monetary sovereignty" is fa.....
» 10/04/2015 10:47:15 AM Is Mise, I like steam locomotives despite their inefficiency and their high CO2 emissions......
» 10/04/2015 10:16:19 AM LEGO, of course my comments aren't beyond reproach. If you can spot any actual errors then.....
» 10/04/2015 2:37:12 AM (continued) The whole point of NAPLAN tests is to direct the money to address the failure.....
» 10/04/2015 2:36:18 AM LEGO, what you should apologise for is basing your comments on your own prejudices rather .....
» 9/04/2015 9:30:22 AM Until one of the major parties gets some decent policies, none of them deserve to govern o.....
» 8/04/2015 2:21:20 PM LEGO, you're the only one so far who has mentioned social workers, and IMO they're only a .....
» 8/04/2015 10:43:37 AM How much of this is sour grapes over the Australian Institute for Progress not having char.....
» 8/04/2015 10:27:09 AM I see nothing wrong with trying to prevent corporations doing things that existing legisla.....
» 8/04/2015 10:16:01 AM I'd always assumed Laffer to be an eminent economist and his curve to be something he'd sp.....
» 7/04/2015 10:57:48 PM Arjay if you want to debate money creation at least do it honestly! Private central banker.....
» 7/04/2015 7:57:29 PM ANZAC Day for me will forever be associated with Australian history, as on my first ANZAC .....
» 7/04/2015 1:52:24 PM Flo, I agree. ___________________________________________________________________________.....
» 7/04/2015 1:40:31 PM Is there any evidence Iran's exacerbated a regional conflict in Bahrain? The allegation se.....
» 7/04/2015 1:34:09 PM ConservativeHippie, I'm rather puzzled as to how this could encourage anyone to take on mu.....
» 7/04/2015 12:42:50 PM ybgirp, Lawrence did not suicide from shame, or for any other reason. He campaigned for Br.....
» 7/04/2015 11:57:14 AM No, phanto, it's for those who recognise that there are more important things than asserti.....
» 7/04/2015 9:55:58 AM Arjay that's gross debt not net debt, so why do you think it's a problem?.....
» 2/04/2015 12:20:15 PM I'm not after a government messiah, but I make no apologies for wanting good government. T.....
» 2/04/2015 11:42:39 AM It's simply not true that "Legislating a new definition of marriage requires children.....
» 2/04/2015 9:37:45 AM McCackie, where are these failed solar and wind schemes? In my state they're very much a s.....
» 31/03/2015 9:21:04 AM David, your antiABC rant is ridiculous! Decline in advertising revenue is the thing that's.....
» 30/03/2015 4:17:15 PM ConservativeHippie, Many of the opportunities your generation had are gone. Even with no .....
» 30/03/2015 3:56:45 PM No, plerdsus, the main reason that the living standard in China went up so much was that t.....
» 30/03/2015 10:34:09 AM 'Tis simpler than that. Where we've made a collective decision to fix it, the environment .....
» 30/03/2015 9:34:37 AM ConservativeHippie, without considering why they have a history of dishonesty, and indeed .....
» 30/03/2015 12:29:46 AM NathanJ, I agree that more people equals more impacts on the environment. But they don't h.....
» 29/03/2015 10:02:46 PM Hasbeen, I don't get it. What's so funny? And what do you think she should've said or done.....
» 29/03/2015 12:31:20 AM NathanJ, I agree with your first paragraph. However you seem to be overlooking two crucial.....
» 28/03/2015 3:06:38 PM One thing people are forgetting is that the BBC have replaced Jeremy Clarkson before! He l.....
» 28/03/2015 2:51:10 PM Bazz, what counts is net energy return, not EROEI. The Catch22 claim is a myth, and a part.....
» 28/03/2015 10:15:35 AM Bazz, In the future people will buy more efficient cars and some will drive less, but syn.....
» 28/03/2015 9:51:08 AM Bazz, Wheel profile issues are a technical challenge, not an insurmountable obstacle. Alt.....
» 27/03/2015 11:30:35 PM NathanJ, I think to most people of the younger generations it would go without saying that.....
» 27/03/2015 11:03:52 PM Bazz, not everyone who disagrees with you is out of touch with reality. It's true that oil.....
» 27/03/2015 5:32:26 PM Is Mise, my point is that if tracks are shared there's no need to modify the bridge any ti.....
» 27/03/2015 5:13:59 PM Bazz, I was referring to the situation federally rather than in any particular state (alth.....
» 27/03/2015 10:17:06 AM Of course not! Like Kevin Rudd, I want a big Australia. But unlike the Liberals I want go.....
» 26/03/2015 10:25:13 PM The current New South Wales government has a disastrous track record on transport. The tru.....
» 26/03/2015 5:12:32 PM Water may exacerbate existing wars, but it is not the cause of any wars in modern times, a.....
» 24/03/2015 11:53:20 PM Hasbeen, No it isn't. Some people involved may have originally regarded it as about money.....
» 24/03/2015 9:28:27 AM Self inflicted or not, they should be crying fowl – any policy that discourages early inte.....
» 23/03/2015 8:12:04 PM Damo Thatsnomoon is right. Although I am opposed to gay marriage (as I don't think we shou.....
» 23/03/2015 9:20:10 AM Josephus, would you have suffered any disadvantage if this government had been able to get.....
» 21/03/2015 3:48:38 PM Disappointingly uninformative article. Doesn't say what what kind of technology it uses. A.....
» 21/03/2015 3:23:17 PM NathanJ, I'm puzzled why opposing your gerrymander because I think it would be very bad fo.....
» 21/03/2015 1:22:28 AM NathanJ, even when young, different people have very different needs, but you don't seem t.....
» 21/03/2015 1:10:15 AM rehctub, this is already done to some extent withh things like cigarette taxes. But copaym.....
» 20/03/2015 5:07:52 PM Peter Lang >>There's nothing you can do now that you lost credibility. I' don't take.....
» 20/03/2015 1:58:14 PM Hasbeen, have you any actual evidence of greatly increased reward for the bludger?.....
» 20/03/2015 1:55:03 PM Luciferase I completely agree that cost matters. It usually matters far more than EROEI. B.....
» 20/03/2015 1:54:25 PM I see you're resorting to outright lies now Peter!' On BNC I stated the reason for the fi.....
» 20/03/2015 12:35:26 PM Rhosty, do you know the difference between refutation and contradiction? Because you haven.....
» 20/03/2015 1:47:02 AM (continued) 11. Your system would greatly increase the incentive to participate in the bl.....
» 20/03/2015 1:45:14 AM Shann, your objection to my statement "The government does create money and loan it t.....
» 20/03/2015 12:35:20 AM Bazz, the insurance costs would be significant when deciding which energy infrastructure t.....
» 18/03/2015 12:33:52 PM Rhosty, it is not being simple that makes your tax plan simplistic, it is your ignoring th.....
» 18/03/2015 12:01:42 PM As I said, Rhosty, to avoid unduly disadvantaging the people who've already bought propert.....
» 18/03/2015 11:37:19 AM Those EROEI calculations are of course based on the older, less efficient solar panels. Th.....
» 18/03/2015 11:11:17 AM Imagine if instead of the GST, Howard government had introduced a broad based land tax: ho.....
» 17/03/2015 2:18:19 PM tomw, I'm glad you can see that there is no Catch-22 of energy storage. But what Luciferas.....
» 17/03/2015 1:52:39 PM Sorry, there is an error in my response to Shann's point 15. Regardless of our external ba.....
» 16/03/2015 8:18:18 PM Foyle, You say "The only way that permanent money can come into existence is for the .....
» 16/03/2015 5:41:20 PM (continued) 12. This does not make it unfit for purpose; quite the reverse! Limiting its .....
» 16/03/2015 5:34:02 PM Shann, going through your 16 points: 1. Misleading. Government assets don't spontaneously .....
» 16/03/2015 2:36:14 PM Bazz, The CEC are a lunatic fringe political party who think that everythhing's a Britisih.....
» 16/03/2015 12:35:18 AM No, Arjay, most of the bank's borrowings are not from overseas but from their own customer.....
» 15/03/2015 8:54:16 PM Shann Turnbull, your article didn't say you'd curb banks' ability to borrow and lend profi.....
» 15/03/2015 12:13:03 AM I think Phil Hunt's letter to the SMH deserves quoting in full: Government policies toward.....
» 14/03/2015 6:49:25 PM david f, faith isn't belief without evidence, it's trust without proof......
» 14/03/2015 1:34:24 AM Incontrovertible fact, huh? You could say "the moon's incontrovertibly made of green .....
» 13/03/2015 9:13:57 PM Luciferase, an engineer would appreciate small force x long time only has the same effect .....
» 13/03/2015 6:11:41 PM Shann, I admit that by punishing the public for saving your plan would be more stimulatory.....
» 13/03/2015 2:37:58 PM Luciferase, your second analogy is wrong. It's not like burning the rocket engine for long.....
» 13/03/2015 12:16:13 PM Terrible idea, based mainly on economic ignorance! A surplus would be extremely bad for th.....
» 13/03/2015 10:55:39 AM Peter Lang and Luciferase, Hypothetically if EROEI itself was the limiting factor and a m.....
» 12/03/2015 2:27:56 PM Luciferase, with the benefit of hindsight I think we should have opted for nuclear power t.....
» 12/03/2015 2:26:33 PM Peter Lang, you should take another look at the intellectual honesty link, because you're .....
» 12/03/2015 10:44:02 AM Sorry, just noticed an error in my above post: John Morgan left the discussion when I poin.....
» 12/03/2015 10:39:40 AM Peter Lang, 99 is not the number of my comments in that thread, but rather the sum of that.....
» 11/03/2015 10:50:08 AM BTW your assumption that I'm not game to ask questions of John Morgan is also wrong. But o.....
» 11/03/2015 10:36:16 AM Peter Lang, Choosing not to write a lengthy response there does not show anything about m.....
» 11/03/2015 10:17:18 AM Peter Lang, there are a lot of conflicting claims on the effects of the RET. Do you have a.....
» 11/03/2015 9:48:18 AM Rhosty, I think you've wrongly conflated two completely different molten salt technologies.....
» 11/03/2015 9:32:39 AM (continued) 3. Cost reductions alone are not enough. Accidents create a huge backlash aga.....
» 11/03/2015 9:31:52 AM Peter Lang, Regarding your six points, the last one is key. You seem to be under the impr.....
» 10/03/2015 1:26:43 PM Taswegian, theres two main factors that determine when people will charge their electric c.....
» 9/03/2015 4:24:11 PM Those who compare Barack Obama with Neville Chamberlain would prefer him to act like Antho.....
» 9/03/2015 1:51:17 AM Peter Lang, Pinting out logical errors is not merely restating my beliefs. And the reason.....
» 8/03/2015 3:10:25 PM Peter Lang, I guess it could in some circumstances be used as a diversionary tactic, but .....
» 7/03/2015 11:35:59 PM Peter Lang, I suggest you have another read of the intellectual honesty link you supplied,.....
» 7/03/2015 5:40:49 PM Peter Lang I'm glad you realise there's a lot more to it than just one measure. I hope no.....
» 6/03/2015 10:33:03 AM Peter Lang, The cost of solar thermal doesn't alter the fact that solar PV has a much lowe.....
» 5/03/2015 3:12:48 PM Shadow, I refer you to my comment on Tuesday. What you assume to be bigotry and racism is .....
» 5/03/2015 1:12:37 PM Peter Lang, Solar power is not very expensive. Indeed solar PV has lower ongoing costs th.....
» 5/03/2015 8:24:14 AM Therefore, Yuyutsu, we are not God, regardless of the status of the self......
» 5/03/2015 1:08:04 AM runner, a large proportion of the population, including many males, are feminists, so it's.....
» 4/03/2015 10:46:34 PM The blame argument is a big part of the problem! There are people on both sides who don't .....
» 4/03/2015 3:30:19 PM You're letting the nutty conspiracy theories get the better of you, John, and have been ve.....
» 4/03/2015 2:08:55 PM Craig, what branch of EA was it? And does the West in this context mean the western world?.....
» 4/03/2015 12:01:04 PM How long will it be before those small reactors have the ability to do that? It's been pro.....
» 3/03/2015 7:49:57 PM ConservativeHippie, you're rather eager to misattribute to antisemitism what is far more l.....
» 3/03/2015 1:55:51 PM Oh yes, Jardine, I remember now: if I dared to assume that people don't magically lose the.....
» 3/03/2015 1:51:16 AM onthebeach, I didn't say the rate wasn't high, I said it wasn't incredible and I stand by .....
» 2/03/2015 6:27:38 PM onthebeach, a 2.6% annual growth rate is not at all incredible when you consider at a larg.....
» 2/03/2015 1:32:44 PM Jardine, there's a ot of information out there, but good reliable information isn't always.....
» 2/03/2015 10:49:36 AM chrisgaff1000, you've got one thing right: reality is not racism. Unfortunately your post .....
» 26/02/2015 10:15:43 PM Hasbeen, do you really think it was anything resembling my advice that wrecked the Soviet .....
» 26/02/2015 10:05:55 PM platypus1900, 1. How much obligation to reduce the government's debt do you think our chi.....
» 25/02/2015 10:47:14 PM Only the people who are ignorant of economics think we're spending our children's money. B.....
» 17/02/2015 4:16:15 PM 579, what is your incomplete pasted list doing in this thread?.....
» 17/02/2015 12:05:29 PM <<Are you a fool, a smart ass, or just poorly informed Aidan? Which ever, you must k.....
» 17/02/2015 9:20:00 AM rehctub, the debt's continued to blow out under Abbott, so your protestations of innocence.....
» 16/02/2015 10:15:20 AM plerdsus, what makes you think high speed rail from Sydney to Melbourne would not even cov.....
» 14/02/2015 1:27:06 PM omni, you seem to be assuming that the trajectory is linear, or worse still exponential. B.....
» 14/02/2015 12:13:23 PM plerdsus, our dollar will fall, but it certainly won't go into freefall like Zimbabwe's. Z.....
» 13/02/2015 7:05:29 PM runner, are you just taking the opportunity to insult Labor? Or do you actually believe wh.....
» 13/02/2015 5:13:08 PM The real problem in Australia today is that we have idiots who think there needs to be a l.....
» 13/02/2015 3:18:27 PM onthebeach, the media of the time were very biased against the Gillard government, and wit.....
» 13/02/2015 7:23:28 AM Arjay your problem is you're getting too your information from conspiracy sources that are.....
» 12/02/2015 9:56:34 AM Arjay, The RBA is government owned and has the power to create money for infrastructure, t.....
» 12/02/2015 9:35:58 AM <<Government revenues are in decline so expenditure cuts must be made. >> No......
» 12/02/2015 2:04:02 AM No, Arjay, I[m not an apologist for the system, but neither do I base my opinions of it on.....
» 11/02/2015 6:57:17 PM Mollydukes 'Can you tell me why we need a surplus and if we do need one right now why hav.....
» 11/02/2015 5:40:01 PM rehctub, I disagree wholeheartedly. When Mike Rann became premier of SA he relied on the s.....
» 11/02/2015 10:11:22 AM Arjay, your post is riddled with false assumptions. Look at the facts. With the technical.....
» 10/02/2015 4:56:19 PM Bazz, thanks for the link. I see it's been updated with a postscript since last time, but .....
» 10/02/2015 12:16:17 PM Alan Austin, Be very careful with matters of arithmetic — people often use them to justify.....
» 9/02/2015 3:35:51 PM Bazz <<The information I have read is only weeks old.>> Then where is it from?.....
» 8/02/2015 11:16:00 PM Bazz, <<No, batteries and other storage systems do not work.>> False. <<.....
» 8/02/2015 10:53:23 PM Bazz, it's only inescapable because of an idiotic presumption of yours. If you instead ass.....
» 7/02/2015 2:43:52 PM Whatever's available. Hydro is the best choice if suitable sites are available, but there .....
» 7/02/2015 10:50:21 AM Bazz, neither Russia nor East Germany were the end result of government getting into busin.....
» 7/02/2015 10:38:34 AM runner <<reject Christ (Truth personsified) and you end up defending all sorts of fa.....
» 5/02/2015 12:29:02 PM Bazz, as I said, the reason animal transport has disappeared from the rails is that it was.....
» 5/02/2015 9:56:17 AM david f, one particularly significant aspect is the transfer of genes between different sp.....
» 5/02/2015 1:46:41 AM Joe, the situation is not quite as you describe, and the differences are important. The r.....
» 5/02/2015 12:30:05 AM Bazz, it's not just out of gauge freight that rail's not well suited to. Some vibration se.....
» 5/02/2015 12:18:32 AM david f, that really depends on what you mean by "theory". Darwinian evolution s.....
» 4/02/2015 3:11:01 PM Hasbeen, "Is rail actually any more economical in diesel fuel than road? When you con.....
» 4/02/2015 2:48:57 PM Hasbeen, your argument is based upon the false premise that those who aren't rich are blud.....
» 4/02/2015 11:29:21 AM The Libs used to rely on the mantra that Labor tax too much, but the public got wise to it.....
» 4/02/2015 8:05:26 AM David, you don't have any economic savvy! If our exports aren't selling for a good price t.....
» 3/02/2015 5:32:35 PM Jay, Yes that's what I mean. It claims 39% of men are not involved in any of the listed ac.....
» 3/02/2015 1:08:06 PM Jay, the article says 1 in 4. That's 25%, not 40%......
» 3/02/2015 1:00:44 PM So a question for Abbott's supporters: how long does he have left? A few years ago I read.....
» 3/02/2015 12:52:38 PM Don, you complain about the electorate not understanding the realities of the political ec.....
» 2/02/2015 10:13:12 PM ant, I suggest you read it again. Your post is misdirected: I was quoting Leo......
» 2/02/2015 3:51:56 PM Leo Lane, <<The oceans are alkaline, not acidic, With a PH of about 8. As Aidan poi.....
» 31/01/2015 1:24:42 AM Leo Lane, it's not "dishonest climatese" at all. AFAICT there has NEVER been any.....
» 31/01/2015 12:07:44 AM ... <<Each of us has to make our own mind up. I don't see how the dubious actions su.....
» 31/01/2015 12:07:06 AM ConservativeHippie, <<Can Aiden and/or Tony153 please explain to me why the perceiv.....
» 30/01/2015 4:52:36 PM Tristan, loans will obviously need to be paid back, but new loans will replace them, so th.....
» 30/01/2015 4:36:06 PM One thing that people seem to have avoided asking is: why now? Could it be that he knows .....
» 30/01/2015 1:56:55 PM Bazz - In the shipping industry, tankers changing destination because they've been outbid .....
» 30/01/2015 1:39:55 PM Bazz, <<if the energy return is sufficient the amount of energy that has to be input.....
» 30/01/2015 1:15:18 PM ConservativeHippie, <<How could water from the sea possibly travel uphill under the.....
» 30/01/2015 12:41:38 PM Bazz, it was measured as THE WORLD'S warmest year on record, though not by much. It was al.....
» 30/01/2015 11:43:18 AM Bazz, Crisis or no crisis, we're a rich country. When there's a tanker at sea we can pay .....
» 30/01/2015 11:38:34 AM Leo Lane, far from being "blatant nonsense", ocean acidification is a very serio.....
» 30/01/2015 10:15:14 AM Hasbeen, I read on another site that Queensland's debt to GSP ratio had actually risen und.....
» 29/01/2015 11:35:07 PM Tristan and Hasbeen, Nearly all money is debt; it is borrowed into existence and disappea.....
» 29/01/2015 9:42:50 PM No, Hasbeen, the misunderstanding is on your part. There is some water under the ice on th.....
» 29/01/2015 7:12:25 PM Hasbeen I think you misunderstood what they were saying. The problem isn't the sea ice, bu.....
» 28/01/2015 6:11:07 PM ConservativeHippie, measurements show last year was the hottest in record, though not by m.....
» 28/01/2015 5:54:56 PM Hasbeen, that's like saying "if you can't do integral calculus you should go back to .....
» 28/01/2015 4:17:20 PM Hasbeen, do you know the difference between weather and climate?.....
» 28/01/2015 12:18:57 PM @ JohnBennetts I had a look at http://www.bree.gov.au/files/files//publications/aes/2014-.....
» 27/01/2015 10:21:16 PM Hasbeen, "In either case the cure would actually finish the job Ruddy & the red head .....
» 27/01/2015 9:44:02 PM Suseonline, “I am certain good ol' Phil won't give a damn about this 'honour'“ Don't be so.....
» 27/01/2015 8:40:10 PM The best way to save the coalition is to give them some time in opposition. And coincident.....
» 27/01/2015 7:30:25 PM Bazz, I repeat: I don't understand the purpose of this article. Who is proposing that the .....
» 27/01/2015 10:56:02 AM I don't understand the purpose of this article. Who is proposing that the USA should expor.....
» 26/01/2015 10:50:52 PM <<He couldn't find anyone at all in Australia to use instead of the husband of a Que.....
» 26/01/2015 1:38:03 PM Jay, I stand corrected re slavery in Mogul India. <<Lewontin argued in the 1960's t.....
» 26/01/2015 10:34:01 AM Jay, I'm not antiimperial, but that doesn't mean I want the truth about the British Empire.....
» 26/01/2015 2:08:06 AM Squeers, <<This is naive in the extreme in that cuts in emissions can only be made f.....
» 26/01/2015 1:45:24 AM Is Mise, <<The big problems would have been overcome if they had not been continued .....
» 26/01/2015 1:32:31 AM Jay, "The Aboriginals immediately abandoned their old way of life because the British.....
» 25/01/2015 6:30:50 PM SPQR, "The point --that you are very conveniently overlooking --is that every white o.....
» 25/01/2015 1:30:09 AM Is Mise, "It is interesting that others ignore the fact that no Aboriginals today wan.....
» 23/01/2015 11:01:13 PM "400 years ago the great Philosophers of the time still argued that the world was fla.....
» 23/01/2015 5:47:35 PM At least two sections of the same road futher north also have the name Edgware Road......
» 23/01/2015 2:00:31 PM Hasbeen, The University of South Australia solved that problem with the Mathematics Help .....
» 23/01/2015 10:03:16 AM Jardine, it was ancient Sparta that had the most unlimited government power ever, and that.....
» 22/01/2015 9:04:20 PM “I'm sure you're about to tell us that the women in burqas actually stole the Edgeware Rd .....
» 22/01/2015 8:56:11 PM runner, with last year the hottest on record globally, isn't it the denialists who have eg.....
» 22/01/2015 4:55:20 PM Taswegian, as long as energy returned exceeds energy invested EROEI is not the limiting fa.....
» 22/01/2015 1:55:40 PM Taswegian, why don't you believe that Solar PV with batteries can scale up enough? And ar.....
» 22/01/2015 11:06:23 AM Taswegian, I'm far from convinced of the economic case for nuclear as although gas prices .....
» 21/01/2015 2:51:37 PM Banjo I didn't say the population was coming down. The birth rate is coming down or has co.....
» 21/01/2015 10:23:41 AM This would've been a good article a decade ago, but the world has moved on somewhat. Liter.....
» 21/01/2015 1:27:37 AM The most negative thing the opposition could do is to pass all the government's bills. The.....
» 20/01/2015 10:06:15 AM It's not muslims we should ban, it's terrorists. Anyone who supports any terrorist organi.....
» 19/01/2015 5:49:58 PM They're not "enjoying Indonesian hospitality", they're locked up in a maximum se.....
» 18/01/2015 7:42:12 PM LEGO, Low intelligence isn't what gets people admitted to psychiatric wards! Do you thin.....
» 18/01/2015 2:15:47 PM LEGO, there is no contradiction in what I said. Intelligence, like most traits, is due to .....
» 17/01/2015 5:03:34 PM Dickybird, you may appreciate my position, but I certainly don't appreciate yours because .....
» 17/01/2015 2:19:37 PM Yabby, historically the main reason poor people have had so many children is to ensure tha.....
» 17/01/2015 2:00:04 PM Rhosty, <<Accountable? By who? Us or those who effectively control Parliament?>&g.....
» 17/01/2015 1:51:06 PM <<This solution only delays the crisis it for a few years and then the problem re-em.....
» 17/01/2015 1:50:25 PM Dickybird, <<“Economic stagnation..... spread to the rest of the world in 2008” and.....
» 16/01/2015 6:27:49 PM << As soon as the world gets it all right again and has credit backed by serious ass.....
» 16/01/2015 6:27:03 PM Dickybird, <<We agree, I think, that we have the start of a problem of economic sta.....
» 16/01/2015 12:36:54 PM Rhosty, how would we keep the senators accountable if we can't see their voting record?.....
» 16/01/2015 10:48:27 AM phanto, even if the parents don't need support, surely the children do?.....
» 16/01/2015 10:38:23 AM Dickybird, our present problems of economic stagnation would not be solved by default. The.....
» 15/01/2015 7:21:36 PM Hasbeen, <<Ah, a South Australian Aidan, one of the states that only exist by bludgi.....
» 15/01/2015 5:05:09 PM Squeers, even if you could find guttersnipes with the ability, the value of doing the job .....
» 15/01/2015 1:40:15 PM Squeers, by limiting the amount of high value work (that few are able to do) done in the c.....
» 15/01/2015 10:59:11 AM Dickybird, why do you think a crisis when it comes to repaying the debts is inevitable? Y.....
» 15/01/2015 10:38:18 AM Hasbeen, solar has much lower ongoing costs than fossil fuels, and its upfront costs are d.....
» 14/01/2015 1:53:24 PM >>The working class, by and large, waits until they can afford to have children. The.....
» 14/01/2015 11:55:43 AM Dickybird, >>Private sector credit normally arises when surplus wealth from product.....
» 13/01/2015 8:23:00 PM The GST was never intended (or claimed) to replace income tax, but ISTR it was claimed it .....
» 13/01/2015 12:41:47 PM Dickybird, However much you say putting your head in a noose is essential, there is no rea.....
» 12/01/2015 10:37:15 PM Hasbeen, there are many things we're world leaders at, from food production to field robot.....
» 12/01/2015 6:10:14 PM Dickybird, <<Yes both systems react to crises.>> Not exactly. Fixed exchange r.....
» 12/01/2015 5:00:39 PM Rhian, Abolishing tariffs unilaterally would be much better than doing nothing, but those .....
» 12/01/2015 2:50:52 PM Hasbeen, <<Tariffs are without doubt the most efficient, easiest & cheapest to colle.....
» 12/01/2015 2:29:04 PM AIUI the reason why "when you paid for Christmas lunch, there was a tariff on the ham.....
» 11/01/2015 4:37:05 PM Dickybird, it's the inability of fixed currencies to react in real time that forces their .....
» 11/01/2015 1:49:48 PM onthebeach, not being a Banana Bender myself, I don't know enough about how the Bligh gove.....
» 11/01/2015 1:09:49 PM rehctub <borrowing money is not the issue, it's one, spending it wisely, and two, being.....
» 11/01/2015 12:26:18 PM Dickybird, Driverless cars react to events. Fixed currencies do not. Apple does the high.....
» 10/01/2015 5:25:52 PM rehctub, how low would interest rates have to go before you'd think it was sensible for go.....
» 10/01/2015 4:42:30 PM Dickybird, <<If we can get automatic controls then obviously we will not need your a.....
» 9/01/2015 6:52:04 PM Arjay, <<Pericles makes no mention of why our taxes are growing and are killing off .....
» 9/01/2015 4:32:10 PM Extremely disingenuous article! In reality there's no intrinsic conflict between Keynesia.....
» 9/01/2015 3:35:07 PM Dickybird, there is no economic reason why the current system can't continue ad infinitum......
» 8/01/2015 9:13:44 PM Arjay, though you may dislike them, debt and taxes are not negatives; they're essential pr.....
» 8/01/2015 12:42:47 PM Arjay, denying your silly claims doesn't make me, or anyone else, "in denial". T.....
» 7/01/2015 8:43:54 PM Rhosty, while it's certainly possible that Australia could rely on thorium fission for muc.....
» 7/01/2015 6:37:57 PM Arjay, there are no plans to introduce a global currency, there are no central banks under.....
» 7/01/2015 4:24:21 PM Curmudgeon You miss the point: the combination of the CO2 level (which doesn't vary much g.....
» 7/01/2015 1:11:41 PM Curmudgeon, 'Tis not me who's redefining what is meant by pollutant (indeed I've seen at l.....
» 7/01/2015 10:44:41 AM Far from being easy to refute, the claims that CO2 is a pollutant are impossible to refute.....
» 7/01/2015 8:55:04 AM Arjay the BIS is owned not by the Rothschilds but by its members, of which the RBA is one......
» 6/01/2015 11:46:36 AM Neoliberalism has a specific meaning: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism . If.....
» 6/01/2015 11:23:50 AM Aside from the impact on the long term unemployed (which is discussed more sensibly un the.....
» 5/01/2015 1:42:23 PM Arjay, Howard may have signed away too much power over the RBA to the RBA, but we did not .....
» 5/01/2015 12:42:30 PM Bazz, <<Well Aiden, it was not me that suggested they would lose the market, it was .....
» 5/01/2015 11:06:51 AM ALCAM, <<The only forms of taxation that should exist are personal income tax and c.....
» 5/01/2015 10:56:14 AM Is Mise, <<Yes Aidan we should as it might lead owners of early Rolls and all Model .....
» 4/01/2015 12:58:29 PM Is Mise <<Consumers in Australia aren't denied a say; they have elected representati.....
» 4/01/2015 12:54:03 PM onthebeach <<"Do you regard advertising on A Current Affair or Today Tonight as.....
» 3/01/2015 10:12:57 PM Jardine (continued) <<You say you don't believe in unlimited government power, but b.....
» 3/01/2015 10:11:49 PM Jardine (continued) <<"Your accusation that I've no criterion for human rights .....
» 3/01/2015 10:09:19 PM Jardine (continued) <<"Now, if you want to debate whether the source of the mon.....
» 3/01/2015 10:07:29 PM Jardine, <<"Why don't you?" There's no use asking me questions, or pretend.....
» 3/01/2015 5:44:53 PM << Except that Hyper is always without fail preceded by ordinary inflation.>> .....
» 3/01/2015 5:44:30 PM Dickybird, Prices can go down as well as up, so investing in precious metals is a gamble......
» 3/01/2015 4:35:15 PM Factseeker and onthebeach, Is the logic of the argument really not clear to you? When som.....
» 3/01/2015 4:06:35 PM onthebeach <<Of course it is a religious tax.>> Do you regard advertising on A.....
» 3/01/2015 10:26:01 AM Arjay, <<Aidan fiat currencies will only work if our Govts have control of their cre.....
» 3/01/2015 2:02:54 AM <<The other cause of hyperinflation is actually caused by the government issuing the.....
» 3/01/2015 2:02:07 AM Dickybird, they're not my friends. And I've got nothing against you gambling a large propo.....
» 2/01/2015 8:12:15 PM Robert LePage, I suggest you watch Don't Panic: The Truth About Population http://www.sbs......
» 2/01/2015 2:48:41 PM Bazz, The allegations that some of the certification money goes to islamist terrorists ar.....
» 2/01/2015 1:52:28 PM <<“Fortunately credibility in your eyes is completely unimportant” Wrong Credibility.....
» 2/01/2015 12:51:08 PM Josephus, do you regard advertising on A Current Affair and Today Tonight as merely a boga.....
» 2/01/2015 12:12:33 PM Dickybird – you are such a delightful pessimist. You are prepared to do appalling damage t.....
» 2/01/2015 11:08:10 AM Big Nana, <<Anyone who can't see the dangers of allowing women to reproduced multipl.....
» 2/01/2015 12:11:36 AM Dickybird, <<Problem is that anything that can be created at no or negligible cost h.....
» 1/01/2015 11:03:01 PM Yuyutsu, <<Now the cat is out of the bag: governments make it their business to con.....
» 31/12/2014 5:14:19 PM Arjay <<The money is not getting into the real economy for production or jobs. It is.....
» 31/12/2014 5:13:17 PM Dickybird, <<Aidan you appear to have got it all the wrong way round. What evidence .....
» 31/12/2014 1:58:08 PM Very rare indeed, jamo? ITYF they're far more common than what happened in Sydney!.....
» 31/12/2014 9:23:20 AM Dickybird, if that's what the basic rules of capitalism are then we're much better off wit.....
» 30/12/2014 5:34:08 PM Dear Yuyutsu, <<Now that's cynical propaganda. We all know that the Australian elec.....
» 30/12/2014 1:47:49 PM Arjay, "Whose economic objectives ie the banks do they serve in money printing.".....
» 30/12/2014 12:17:43 PM wantok, I find it rather amusing that you give an example of why the financial transaction.....
» 30/12/2014 10:29:44 AM Arjay, let me get this straight: you think the poster who lists dozens of government owned.....
» 30/12/2014 1:14:38 AM Yuyutsu, <<So now I should thank you, thank you, thank you, for your gracious permit.....
» 29/12/2014 8:12:58 PM "Aidan you have not addressed the repeal of Dod Frank Bill thus putting the tax payer.....
» 29/12/2014 7:55:19 PM Hasbeen "As for victims, last night some fool woman was raving on TV that they had ba.....
» 29/12/2014 7:40:44 PM Ojnab, what advantage would there be in making them become Australian citizens? Surely it .....
» 29/12/2014 1:10:30 AM BTW the Bank of England did start out in private hands. It was nationalized in 1946 and ha.....
» 29/12/2014 1:05:06 AM Philip S, just because some conspiracy nuts allege that those central banks are privately .....
» 28/12/2014 11:57:55 PM Arjay, Russia may have been buying gold since 2008, but low oil prices have forced it to d.....
» 28/12/2014 9:50:13 PM The Howard government sold the gold off without tender because in order not to depress the.....
» 28/12/2014 9:30:18 PM Rhosty, I agree with most of what you're saying here, but you're wrong on one point: ".....
» 28/12/2014 2:04:26 AM Jardine, you're exhibiting severe cognitive dissonance. I've neither admitted that my beli.....
» 26/12/2014 11:34:08 PM Jardine, my first thought when I read your response was that you'd resumed your moronic ha.....
» 26/12/2014 12:37:07 PM Shadow, let me again make it clear that when I say "printing money" I don't mean.....
» 26/12/2014 12:05:50 PM rehctub, if things are genuinely cheaper at the supermarket then why does it matter if sma.....
» 26/12/2014 11:54:05 AM Shadow, your post epitomises the stupidity of this this government's way of thinking! Fir.....
» 26/12/2014 11:38:36 AM Suseonline, I said no such thing. I don't have a gun and have not advocated learning to sh.....
» 26/12/2014 8:06:53 AM misanthrope, you've avoided answering my question. I did not ask "why not hunt for fo.....
» 25/12/2014 8:40:43 PM misanthrope, ITYF the "correct person" would also have a gun, which invalidates .....
» 24/12/2014 5:20:02 PM Shadow, I told you the RBA sold bonds and paid an overnight interest rate on reserves. Yo.....
» 24/12/2014 1:27:08 AM Shadow, "Now I believe you are just making it up as you go along. The RBA does nothi.....
» 23/12/2014 3:41:47 PM Jardine, your problem is that you think North Korea is the only form of big government. T.....
» 23/12/2014 9:55:32 AM The best solution is to replace the GST with another option that the Hawke government cons.....
» 23/12/2014 9:26:06 AM Shadow, The RBA does not borrow money to lend it. It lends the money first (increasing th.....
» 21/12/2014 9:22:49 PM I refer you to my previous comment!.....
» 21/12/2014 7:41:25 PM Absolutely pathetic! Why send divers out to do the job that could be done from within a co.....
» 21/12/2014 5:17:45 PM Plantagenet, none of those innovations would make a nuclear submarine suitable for surveil.....
» 21/12/2014 4:17:17 PM Nearly all of the comments on this thread are stupid! The primary purpose of our submarine.....
» 20/12/2014 11:43:53 PM Shadow, I too am unable to think of any examples of a country with a floating currency tha.....
» 20/12/2014 9:58:28 AM Australians don't see that as class politics, but see class politics as unAustralian......
» 19/12/2014 6:04:07 PM Shadow, There is no conflict. Introducing a requirement for the RBA to borrow money befor.....
» 19/12/2014 1:52:17 PM Shadow, I know what the point you're trying to make is, but just because you're saying it.....
» 19/12/2014 10:11:24 AM Shadow, When did the shipping costs suddenly jump by 60-70%? The wage regulation is impo.....
» 18/12/2014 9:53:47 PM It's nothing to do with political correctness. They didn't just shoot him because they cou.....
» 18/12/2014 1:04:13 PM rehctub, "Aidan, have you ever tried to do much without money?" Yes and it's not.....
» 18/12/2014 9:46:07 AM rehctub, far from being a legal minefield it's quite straightforward. Australia has the ri.....
» 17/12/2014 11:52:04 PM malthusista, I never denied that population growth has costs. But new railways benefit the.....
» 17/12/2014 11:40:31 PM (continued) 4) If an individual invents their own currency and retains the right to print.....
» 17/12/2014 11:39:56 PM Shadow, 1) You made the claim: "I am stunned by the complete ignorance on display. T.....
» 17/12/2014 2:53:13 PM "Would Aidan concede that until our politicians lift their game that further populati.....
» 17/12/2014 1:40:55 PM Shadow, That's due to the Rudd government's regulations, which predate the Coastal Tradin.....
» 16/12/2014 6:21:18 PM "Sovereign nations do not have unlimited credit as Greece found out." GREECE SUR.....
» 16/12/2014 6:20:50 PM Shadow, stop despairing and start thinking! "M1 (cash and deposits) will trend up wi.....
» 16/12/2014 3:03:07 PM "The point about the GPI is that most of us are not much better off in real terms. Th.....
» 16/12/2014 3:02:07 PM Divergence, it's not a very long way from the lab to getting practical applications commer.....
» 16/12/2014 1:13:11 PM I looked at the Coastal Trading Act, which is at... http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/C2014.....
» 16/12/2014 12:41:33 PM This surprises me. It seems to be a bad law, so how did it get through the Senate and why .....
» 15/12/2014 5:15:50 PM PaulMurrayCbr, Adelaide does trade in the global economy already. And it has call centres,.....
» 15/12/2014 1:49:36 PM Divergence, my opinion's based on the fact that every alleged limiting factor for Australi.....
» 15/12/2014 9:18:03 AM malthusista (continued) "Any 'solution' which fails to make the demand equal to the .....
» 15/12/2014 9:15:27 AM malthusista, Apology rejected, as you seem to be using it to avoid answering the question:.....
» 14/12/2014 3:50:14 PM malthusista (continued) "So, as Australia as a whole is becoming ever more impoverish.....
» 14/12/2014 3:48:42 PM malthusista, 'Then we're agreed it's Australia's current record rate of population [growth.....
» 13/12/2014 11:45:49 AM Yet again Malcolm King writes another Adelaide bashing article based on illogical conclusi.....
» 13/12/2014 8:52:25 AM runner, only ignorant people like you believe that only things with zero provision cost ca.....
» 11/12/2014 5:32:19 PM (sorry, "eel" should say "well".).....
» 11/12/2014 5:31:07 PM (continued) 5) What really causes hyperinflation. Hyperinflation requires the printing of.....
» 11/12/2014 5:24:42 PM Shadow, If you look at M1 instead of M0 you'll still see an upward trend. Most money creat.....
» 11/12/2014 1:45:23 AM Armchair, I wasn't referring to the Chechnya building, but rather the 1999 apartment bombi.....
» 10/12/2014 11:57:45 PM Jardine, though a 100% tax rate would mean total lack of economic opportunity, it wouldn't.....
» 10/12/2014 9:43:50 PM This article is based on many false assumptions. Although high taxes do drive the prosper.....
» 10/12/2014 7:21:56 PM So do I, Foxy, but I haven't heard anything contradictory from other sources. And Victoria.....
» 10/12/2014 5:47:59 PM Beach, That the factions have influence is (I think) an indisputable fact. That the facti.....
» 10/12/2014 3:03:24 PM Beach, Indesputable? I dispute it, therefore you're wrong. There are factions in the ALP.....
» 10/12/2014 11:48:08 AM Beach, if both sides of politics are critical of the CFMEU, what was the point of your hea.....
» 9/12/2014 2:05:43 PM Atman, those who criticise China's construction of coal fired power stations usually use i.....
» 8/12/2014 9:56:24 AM Shadow, if you think 99.99% of economists concur, it suggests your knowledge of them is ve.....
» 7/12/2014 6:08:32 PM Shadow, the problem seems to be that you have failed to comprehend that some of the stuff .....
» 7/12/2014 5:37:52 PM Peter Vexatious, your comprehension is pretty poor. Firstly it isn't sodium chloride that .....
» 7/12/2014 12:05:36 PM Counterfeit currency, sonofgloin — there's no truth to it whatsoever, but it's frequently .....
» 7/12/2014 11:46:27 AM Shadow, your accusation that I have no formal education in econmics whatsoever is a lie. A.....
» 6/12/2014 2:47:19 PM malthusista, I think we've been arguing at cross purposes. I was referring to a steady eco.....
» 6/12/2014 2:12:29 PM Limiting suffrage only makes things more unfair. And the Senate, in difficult circumstance.....
» 6/12/2014 9:34:23 AM malthusista, links to facts are useful, but links to other opinions concurring with your o.....
» 5/12/2014 4:57:46 PM Divergence, I'm well aware of what hyperinflation is, but I'm not still so ignorant that I.....
» 5/12/2014 1:18:22 PM Shadow I'm not backflipping at all. A proof that needs university level maths to understan.....
» 5/12/2014 1:35:13 AM "What if you're wrong? Have you even considered the possibility?" If I'm wrong i.....
» 5/12/2014 1:28:06 AM Jardine, "Obviously if government is presumptively superior at economising, then the.....
» 4/12/2014 11:27:00 PM Jardine, ignoring the needs of those without money is the problem. So even the bank robber.....
» 4/12/2014 6:10:03 PM Shadow, "Despite my shortage of spare time, I did wade through the dross that is bilb.....
» 4/12/2014 4:26:39 PM Jardine, people with no money can still demand things. And isn't ocean acidification proo.....
» 4/12/2014 3:45:23 PM Divergence, for ANY view you will always find a number of economists disagreeing. But on c.....
» 4/12/2014 3:42:17 PM malthusista, I make no apologies for not treating a discussion website like a report or un.....
» 3/12/2014 5:40:48 PM Divergence, Though a higher population will increase pressure to divert parkland to human.....
» 3/12/2014 11:15:38 AM "So what is needed Aidan ? More debt ? Total debt of Australia is $5 trillion which i.....
» 3/12/2014 2:01:26 AM If you can't tell the difference between an argument that's actually circular and one that.....
» 2/12/2014 6:59:29 PM Jardine, The only circle I've gone in is repeating myself in more detail because I could s.....
» 2/12/2014 1:53:40 PM (continued) "Since the question is WHETHER government knows its use of resources is .....
» 2/12/2014 1:52:32 PM Jardine, "What if someone else doesn't agree with your opinions about what the price.....
» 2/12/2014 11:34:17 AM Joske, your claim that "All the labour saving changes we have become used to will be .....
» 2/12/2014 10:54:57 AM "One thing the IT industry does well is to enable efficiency. I have on my mantle pie.....
» 1/12/2014 10:13:53 PM Jardine, it's interesting to see you're now using SPHERICAL arguments (assuming that I'm j.....
» 1/12/2014 4:50:27 PM 579, "If Abbott gets defeated at the party ballot there will have to be a federal el.....
» 1/12/2014 4:48:21 PM Hasbeen, are you sure those "southern unionists" are from SA not Victoria? Far .....
» 1/12/2014 3:19:38 PM No Hasbeen I'm not kidding. Expertise is very important, and its loss by government shortt.....
» 1/12/2014 1:42:40 PM Jardine, "The blandishments of Tristan's open-ended belief in the State only ever mak.....
» 1/12/2014 1:27:08 PM David Johnston's under attack not for telling the truth but for making prejudiced comments.....
» 1/12/2014 12:12:36 PM Hasbeen, a higher population would make it easier to properly service national parks. ____.....
» 30/11/2014 11:13:53 PM Divergence, I agree we are damaging our global life support system, and agree with many of.....
» 30/11/2014 10:31:57 PM Clarification to the above: When I said... I do not support the use of guns and tasers in .....
» 30/11/2014 10:24:20 PM Jardine, I thought you'd given up on this thread. But considering the stupidity and circul.....
» 30/11/2014 10:11:07 PM Arjay I answered your question before you asked it: And despite what the twoofers claim, t.....
» 30/11/2014 11:39:54 AM Arjay, first you believe the CEC, now you're getting your information from twoofer website.....
» 30/11/2014 12:12:21 AM Constance, he was NOT one of the founders of Greenpeace, and he may have had a no nonsense.....
» 29/11/2014 5:19:32 PM No, Hasbeen, I'm not a teacher. And what I was questioning wasn't your claims about inadeq.....
» 29/11/2014 4:10:58 PM Despite overwhelming evidence and a confession, the article linked to makes the extraordin.....
» 29/11/2014 12:06:23 AM Hasbeen, regardless of the immigration rate there's absolutely no reason why full employme.....
» 28/11/2014 1:45:06 PM malthusista and Divergence, the unemployment and underemployment problem is down to econom.....
» 28/11/2014 12:28:27 PM Hasbeen, is there any evidence behind your claims? Or did you just base them on stereotype.....
» 25/11/2014 4:31:13 PM Shadow, If you've got the degrees you say you have, surely you have the critical thinking .....
» 25/11/2014 3:10:12 PM Divergence, "You and Yuyutsu are assuming that there is no problem if there is no arm.....
» 25/11/2014 2:46:25 PM DaS, "Aidan, China is doing very well with it thanks, It not require Geothermal heat,.....
» 25/11/2014 1:46:35 AM Shadow, I did specifically mention on this thread (over a week ago) that I support the us.....
» 24/11/2014 12:42:42 PM DaS, if the technology is as good as you say it is, I suggest contacting geothermal energy.....
» 23/11/2014 11:05:20 PM Hasbeen, whatever we do we're going to make the environment serve us. But it can serve us .....
» 23/11/2014 9:15:34 PM There's a huge amount of rubbish in this thread. 'Tis not our population that's unsustaina.....
» 23/11/2014 8:43:51 PM Hello DaS, "CO2 not above +33*C(70 Bar pressure)can be held as liquid," Correct,.....
» 23/11/2014 6:11:30 PM DaS, your post does not make sense. CO2 is never a low pressure liquid. And a bar isn't a .....
» 22/11/2014 11:13:36 PM Arjay, Even for your non representative sample of a beer and a hamburger, what the AVERAG.....
» 22/11/2014 5:20:22 PM Bazz - Austerity NEVER EVER aided an economy's recovery. It always did exactly what it'd .....
» 22/11/2014 4:49:49 PM Shadow, Firstly, I think I misunderstood one of your claims: when you said... "and t.....
» 22/11/2014 10:36:20 AM Arjay, as I said, you're writing is so incoherent that any attempt to explain it requires .....
» 22/11/2014 2:32:30 AM No Arjay, you're not a nutty conspirator, you're a conspiracy nut. A nutty conspirator wou.....
» 22/11/2014 2:00:34 AM Shadow, Rather than doubting my education, I suggest you reexamine your own assumptions. .....
» 21/11/2014 12:53:59 PM Shadow, I agree that the RBA is not a great lender, and this IMO is a policy flaw that sh.....
» 21/11/2014 12:33:13 PM Peter, I am prepared to enter into a rational debate. However I do have some reservations.....
» 21/11/2014 9:38:00 AM Arjay, you currently believe, based only on the claims of nutty conspiracy websites, that .....
» 21/11/2014 9:31:32 AM Shadow, Your ignorance of economics is epic. Most money creation is now done electronical.....
» 20/11/2014 2:42:51 PM Peter, YOU do not understand. I did not and would not claim that human ENERGY input was si.....
» 20/11/2014 10:02:31 AM Peter, renewables are certainly sustainable, giving a positive energy return even in cloud.....
» 19/11/2014 10:32:56 PM Arjay, far from trying to confuse the issue, I'm trying to end the confusion by telling th.....
» 19/11/2014 3:17:50 PM Shadow, you'll be even more stunned when you discover your own ignorance: The RBA is not a.....
» 19/11/2014 2:37:06 PM Armchair, devaluation is no longer a disruptive process. The markets control the value of .....
» 19/11/2014 1:44:52 PM Shadow, further to my previous posting, your 20% figure is wrong. The real data is graphed.....
» 19/11/2014 1:18:26 PM Armchair, the answer's very simple: the page http://humansarefree.com/2013/11/complete-lis.....
» 19/11/2014 11:11:15 AM Arjay if it's there in writing by the Financial Stability Board, why don't you provide a r.....
» 19/11/2014 2:33:07 AM SM, The ABC's anti-bias charter is not ignored, and does ensure lots of different viewpoi.....
» 18/11/2014 4:13:58 PM Bazz, if you've read the document, why do you keep making baseless claims that contradict .....
» 18/11/2014 3:22:05 PM Bazz, you misunderstand what the Financial Stability Board does. It did not seize any mone.....
» 18/11/2014 12:55:09 PM What you think you know is very different from the truth. It's the right "whingers&qu.....
» 18/11/2014 11:08:57 AM Rhostry, There's a serious error in your calculations. Firstly 1000 * 0.6% isn't 60% it's.....
» 18/11/2014 10:18:26 AM Arjay the global house of cards hypothesis is a myth. The ¥ has fallen not because of QE b.....
» 18/11/2014 2:11:13 AM Armchair, Nobody is proposing Cyprus style confiscation of bank deposits. And nor is the .....
» 17/11/2014 7:03:45 PM Arjay, I don't think the term "credible" really applies to a site dedicated to s.....
» 17/11/2014 5:18:31 PM Arjay, the CEC is a lunatic fringe political party who think everything's a British conspi.....
» 17/11/2014 11:19:58 AM Shadow, The link is a subscriber only page (and the usual trick of replacing theaustralia.....
» 16/11/2014 9:57:04 PM Hasbeen, Where on earth do you get the idea that high government debt forces up the price.....
» 16/11/2014 5:25:36 PM rehctub, I'm not presuming any one area will dominate. Australia has the potential to be c.....
» 16/11/2014 4:35:18 PM Shadow, I never said the coalition actually supported it, I said they subsequently claimed.....
» 16/11/2014 1:37:01 AM Shadow, The coalition may not have supported the "cash splash" at the time, but.....
» 15/11/2014 2:43:39 PM Shadow, Having economics as part of your degree doesn't count for much – after all, peopl.....
» 14/11/2014 10:16:27 AM SM, An austerity budget at a time of high unemployment is vacuous. It damages growth, so .....
» 13/11/2014 6:45:02 PM "So you think an austerity budget is a populist policy?" Not directly, but it's .....
» 13/11/2014 3:14:29 PM Shadow Minister, what good would restricting voters' choice be? After all, the Liberal and.....
» 13/11/2014 3:05:38 PM Rhosty, where did you get the idea that transmission losses were anywhere near 50%?.....
» 12/11/2014 7:32:05 PM chrisgaff1000, the FPTP system is EXTREMELY BAD for democracy. It benefits the big parties.....
» 12/11/2014 11:11:05 AM Whether he was worth voting for I couldn't say, because I don't know why the people who vo.....
» 12/11/2014 11:03:28 AM More R&D is certainly needed, but the cost of finance is arguably a bigger barrier. Renewa.....
» 11/11/2014 5:34:37 PM The major reforms China needs are all political not economic. There are some economic ref.....
» 10/11/2014 10:09:30 PM onthebeach "It is prudent risk management to [deny people the opportunity to get away.....
» 10/11/2014 9:16:09 PM Arjay my questions were not thetorical and my answers and comments are what I genuinely be.....
» 10/11/2014 7:37:03 PM What timezone are you in, spindoc? The topic of climate change I'm not at all new to. The.....
» 10/11/2014 2:09:43 PM onthebeach, "However immigration policy and intakes should not put the population and.....
» 10/11/2014 2:00:58 PM spindoc, there seem to be some serious gaps in your understanding: "The aircraft ana.....
» 9/11/2014 11:30:05 PM Arjay, 1) Why do you think money printing made anything worse? Surely the only think mone.....
» 9/11/2014 11:07:35 PM Jardine, I don't argue that paying tax and complying with law is voluntary. You are lying.....
» 9/11/2014 5:58:23 PM Outrider, There's not really any need to read the book. Watching the film should be suffic.....
» 9/11/2014 4:31:38 PM The experience and warnings of European countries are certainly relevant to Australia, but.....
» 9/11/2014 1:44:11 AM Jardine – No, our differences are down to the fact that you're taking theoretical princip.....
» 8/11/2014 1:54:20 PM Jon J, I think the lack of responses is because this article is uncontroversial and compre.....
» 8/11/2014 1:36:14 PM Arjay, what makes you think that a) The Western system will collapse? b) China and Russia .....
» 8/11/2014 1:17:33 PM The best solution is a broad based land value tax. That would enable Australia to dispense.....
» 6/11/2014 11:05:55 PM Hasbeen, don't be too quick to discount the link between stomach ulcers and stress. Althou.....
» 6/11/2014 12:19:47 PM [Repost with error corrected] Development that leaves future generations worse off may be.....
» 6/11/2014 12:15:06 PM Development that leaves future generations worse off may be "Progress" but it's .....
» 5/11/2014 1:26:49 AM Jardine, "There's no such thing as a right to attack and rape people, remember? Idiot.....
» 4/11/2014 10:30:45 PM The US dollar's domination of the world financial system has little to do with oil — it's .....
» 4/11/2014 7:47:39 PM As oil prices are determined in real time, it doesn't really make much difference what cur.....
» 4/11/2014 1:13:23 AM Jardine, "I can’t see how you can’t see that you’re caught in a self-contradiction th.....
» 3/11/2014 2:56:26 PM Jardine Like most capitalists, I recognise the need for law and order and support the limi.....
» 3/11/2014 1:49:23 AM Jardine, what I'm contradicting isn't myself, it's the stuff you falsely accuse me of beli.....
» 1/11/2014 11:26:59 PM "'For a start, I don't have access to that much capital!' That’s because the masses a.....
» 1/11/2014 11:00:20 PM Jardine - "You haven’t a) taken any externalities into account in units of a lowest c.....
» 1/11/2014 1:53:06 PM Jardine Your restating an absurd claim doesn't mean we've established it, it merely means.....
» 31/10/2014 10:17:11 AM runner – "Social justice is giving everyone a fair go ' very sweeping statement Aidan.....
» 30/10/2014 11:02:38 PM Jardine (continued) "At best, your arguments against capitalism would only amount to .....
» 30/10/2014 10:59:34 PM Jardine – Firstly let's get one thing straight: I do not support rape under any circumstan.....
» 30/10/2014 9:05:44 PM Jay – "In the first minute of the video Aurini said you'd say that ;)" No he did.....
» 30/10/2014 4:26:31 PM Jay - Why do you link to the silly rants of someone who doesn't even know what social just.....
» 30/10/2014 10:33:43 AM I'm not sure whether this article's deliberately deceptive or just plain stupid! Fossil fu.....
» 29/10/2014 3:22:21 PM Jardine, your ridiculous accusation of my having lost the argument shows a serious deficie.....
» 29/10/2014 11:08:58 AM Yuyutsu, I did mention that there were exceptions such as for the purpose of child protec.....
» 28/10/2014 8:23:04 PM Jardine – I'm referring to your false assumptions that I'm trying to force people into su.....
» 28/10/2014 2:25:29 PM If you started thinking critically rather than getting your opinions from the morons at mi.....
» 28/10/2014 1:52:49 PM Jardine, "You answer my prior questions first. They prove there’s no argument for me.....
» 28/10/2014 9:49:59 AM This is not unique to Australia. The Kiwis have a similar situation......
» 27/10/2014 6:16:57 PM Jardine - "Stop trying to evade the question and just have the intellectual honesty t.....
» 27/10/2014 2:56:47 PM Loudmouth, After what the Soviets did, I'm not surprised. As I said in my original post i.....
» 27/10/2014 12:43:29 AM Dear Yuyutsu, Socialism can be implemented by normal democratic means. It does not requir.....
» 26/10/2014 3:32:52 PM JKJ (continued) As for your claim that "They never urge for the dismantling of the c.....
» 26/10/2014 3:30:43 PM JKJ, my sticking to your agenda would be futile, because your arguments rely on loosely de.....
» 26/10/2014 12:08:26 PM Yuyutsu, your rely to Jardine makes no sense.First you say you want people to be hanged, t.....
» 25/10/2014 11:34:44 PM JKJ, I think I see the problem. Would I be correct in deducing that because of the self op.....
» 25/10/2014 11:03:59 AM Loudmouth – It may have escaped your attention, but no political movement has a monopoly o.....
» 25/10/2014 1:58:51 AM JKJ – I've identified many of your logical errors, but so far I don't seem to be able to .....
» 24/10/2014 3:45:09 PM Loudmouth – Like every economic philosophy, socialism is a collection of features that we.....
» 24/10/2014 1:02:07 PM Experience may not beat logic, but it can certainly highlight logical errors, and your arg.....
» 24/10/2014 3:04:07 AM JKJ, You're conflating different meanings of "governments". Just because the exe.....
» 23/10/2014 4:09:36 PM "Well if it can't do it at all, it can't do it well, can it?" Of course, but the.....
» 23/10/2014 11:33:44 AM JKJ, you're being rather disingenuous here. I have not made any assumption of intrinsic su.....
» 22/10/2014 11:07:57 AM Seriously Rhrosty, the gold standard? ? ? ? You want to take currency valuation away from .....
» 21/10/2014 10:17:16 PM This article is based on ideology not practicality — a public monopoly is far easier to re.....
» 21/10/2014 12:08:15 AM JKJ Infrastructure differs from other capital goods by being geographically fixed. A seco.....
» 20/10/2014 11:38:27 AM Jardine K. Jardine, the answer to your first question is "in your head". In real.....
» 19/10/2014 4:15:06 PM Barry, do you appreciate the irony of your own article? Maoists were (and are) even more p.....
» 18/10/2014 11:10:34 AM plerdsus's post reminds me of the joke abut taxing penis length http://www.ebaumsworld.com.....
» 16/10/2014 7:21:58 PM Rhosty, your proposed tax would be far more of a handbrake on the economy than the existin.....
» 16/10/2014 4:43:31 PM It's another idiotic article reinforcing the myths that balanced budgets equate to fiscal .....
» 9/10/2014 10:06:47 PM Hasbeen, it's a very long shot to call the people in those occupations "work shy".....
» 9/10/2014 10:05:33 PM Malcolm, I'm a bit puzzled by your comments about specialist loans in SA not having been a.....
» 7/10/2014 11:59:28 PM Malcolm, I do mean South Australia. Over the past 25 years Australian interest rates have .....
» 7/10/2014 11:05:43 PM JBowyer, that stereotype of socialists comes from people who've never attempted to underst.....
» 7/10/2014 8:36:57 PM JBowyer, I understand how you could think that anyone who would use the term "idle&qu.....
» 7/10/2014 1:26:27 PM JBowyer, higher interest rates benefit the idle rich while making it harder for those who .....
» 6/10/2014 2:01:54 PM Malcolm, the truth may appear odd because you've fallen for the economic myths that the Li.....
» 5/10/2014 2:14:13 PM Struth, what a silly article! It criticises The Advertiser for not being a newspaper, but.....
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